Water Valley sits in a fold of Hamburg where the creek cut down through the shale and the road just followed it, and in early spring the whole hollow smells like cold water and thaw. Ground Breakers gets after the yards down there and up on the flats above them: cleanup first, then the season's mowing and trimming, edges cut clean along the drive, beds mulched dark. In a place like that the leaves come down all at once, and they come off the lawn before snow can pin them there. Lawn care that leaves a Hamburg property looking deliberate rather than accidental.