Fly Creek is a handful of buildings at a junction where Oaks Creek slips south toward the Susquehanna, dairy hills folding away in every direction toward Otsego Lake. Lawns out here have room, with long approaches, old barns and shade trees older than the houses, and mowing them is a wide, unhurried pattern. Trimming keeps grass off the stone foundations and the porch skirts; edging gives a gravel drive a line to hold all summer. April clearing pulls out the winter thatch and the limbs the cold months brought down, and the October run takes as long as October allows. Cut properly, a hillside lawn in Otsego County belongs to the view instead of interrupting it.