There are stone walls standing in the woods around Mount Hope that were laid when all of this was pasture, and the grass here still grows like it remembers. Mount Hope Mowing Co. works those old fields and the yards that came after them — mowing, trimming, edging, and the cleanups that bracket the season on either end. June rain in Orange County turns one week of growth into two, and staying even with that comes down to showing up when you said you would. The pleasure of the work is uncomplicated: a fresh cut, a clean border where the lawn meets the road, a yard that finally matches the house. Then a week goes by and you do it all again.