Early September in Mamakating: the ballfields have gone quiet, the mornings arrive with a chill off the ridge, and the grass puts on one last strong push. Straight Cut Landscaping is out in it, mowing, trimming and edging lawns from Summitville down through the hamlets. There is a particular pleasure in laying stripes across an open yard and coming back the next week to run them the other way, and in the hard line an edger leaves where turf stops and driveway starts. Sullivan County lawns rarely come flat or square, which makes a straight cut something you earn rather than something you find. That is the part worth taking pride in.