North in the county the ground turns black: the muck fields around Elba, flat as a tabletop, soil so dark at dusk it reads like standing water. Bloss Lawn And Snow Services keeps lawns in that country, mowing through the long middle of summer, trimming and edging where grass meets gravel and stone, and hauling off the leaves when October empties the maples. Fall clearing is its own kind of pleasure, a yard raked down to green again before the first hard freeze. Genesee grass runs fast in June and slows by September, and the schedule bends to that. What gets left behind is simply a place that looks tended.