Late August in Mahopac, the light comes in low and gold over Kirk Lake and the lawns hold that color for about an hour. Byron's Lawn Care spends its days making sure there is something worth looking at when it does — grass cut at the right height, borders trimmed clean, beds mulched and tidy. Summers in Putnam County swing between drought weeks and thunderstorm weeks, so the mowing schedule bends to what the grass is actually doing. Spring opens with a cleanup and the last of winter's scatter; autumn arrives with leaves by the truckload. Mahopac and its neighboring towns get lawns kept in steady shape.