Some mornings White Pond holds the sky so still you could read the clouds straight off the water, and that is the hour the mowers start in Kent. Areté Lawn Care Services keeps lawns across town on the rhythm the season sets — cut, trim, edge, clear the clippings, leave the lines running true across the slope. Kent yards are rarely flat; they tilt toward water and rock and old stone wall, and a straight pass on tilted ground is its own small pleasure. By the time the pond loses its mirror to the wind, a street's worth of grass is standing even. The list of the work is short to say and slow to master, and it gets done for neighbors who will be barefoot on it by evening.