East of Mount Hope the land lets go of the ridge and spills toward the Wallkill valley, where by mid-July the heat sits still over the grass all afternoon. Big Dawgs Landscaping works straight through it — mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups, the steady rhythm that keeps a lawn from getting away from you in a wet Orange County summer. There is a moment at the end of a cut when the stripes line up and the last pass meets the first without a gap, and that moment is the entire reason. Yards out near Howells run big and open; the ones up toward the woods run shaded and stubborn. Both of them get the same finish.