By the middle of July every hill around Maryland has gone a different green — hayfield, pasture, dooryard, and the dark line of woods above them all. That is the season the best cut lawn service lives for: weekly mowing on hillside yards, string trimming around fence posts and foundations, and the border along walks and drives cut back to a line. Spring starts with raking out whatever winter left behind, and fall ends with leaves hauled off before the first hard frost pins them down. The work is simple and never quite the same twice, because no two lots in this valley sit flat. Late afternoon, with the mower cooling and the stripes running true across the slope, a yard here can hold the light for an hour.