Milan is stone wall and hayfield and hardwood ridge, with the Taconic curving north through the trees and barely a roof in sight. Dimock's Lawn Care works those long Dutchess County driveways, mowing lawns that sit in clearings the woods would happily take back. Deer traffic, oak leaf and heavy shade make for a particular kind of turf, and it gets cut on a cycle that suits it rather than the calendar. When the first hard frost silvers the fields out toward Milan Hollow, the season closes with a full cleanup and every leaf carried off. Milan, Lafayetteville, Red Hook, Rhinebeck and Pine Plains.