An August thunderstorm crosses Le Ray in twenty minutes and leaves the whole town smelling like wet clover and cut grass. Fresh Cut Property Services goes back out after it — mowing, trimming, edging, hauling off clippings and storm litter, straightening the beds the rain flattened. Between the sandy pine flats and the open farm lots, summer up here is brief and headlong, and lawns take full advantage of it. Straight lines, a hard edge where the driveway meets the yard, nothing left shaggy along the fence — that reads from the road. Come October the same properties get their leaves taken away before the ground goes hard.