Gainesville sits high on the Wyoming County tableland where sky takes up most of the view and the turbines on the ridge turn slow above the hayfields. Lawns up here are big and exposed, drying pale in the wind and greening again with every passing rain. Mowing that much open ground comes down to steady lines and clean turns, with the trimming finishing around barns, posts and mailboxes. The spring clearing empties what a plateau winter left in the corners, and the fall run strips the leaves before the first hard freeze locks them down. On an evening when low light comes across a fresh-cut field toward Silver Lake, the ground holds it the way only new-mown grass can.