East of the Taconic, the woods around Fahnestock stay dark green when everything else has turned — pine, hemlock and mountain laurel holding their color long after the maples have let go. Black Pines Landscaping tends lawns in that borrowed shade, where grass grows thin beneath the canopy and every open patch of sun is worth the attention. Mowing here means knowing which corner of a yard dries first in spring and which one stays soft into June. Come October the work shifts to leaves, and a lawn raked clean under those tall trunks looks less cleaned than recovered. Kent hands its yards a forest for a backdrop; lawn care is what keeps the two on speaking terms.