July in Lagrangeville is thick and green, Wappinger Creek running low under the trees, the heat holding past sundown, fireflies rising out of the grass in the old farm fields. AMJ Landscaping keeps pace with a Dutchess County summer that never lets the mowing get ahead of it. Weekly cuts, string trimming along the stone walls and fence lines, edges laid clean at the walks and drives, beds mulched, hedges shaped, and the leaf work in a valley full of oaks. A yard mowed in even stripes on one of those long humid evenings is worth standing back to look at. This land was farmed a long time before it was lawn, and it still rewards attention.