Out at Cayuga Island the Niagara runs wide and unhurried, still hours from the drop, and the yards along LaSalle seem to take their pace from it. Connor's Landscaping Services keeps those yards in order — mowing, edging, trimming, mulch laid dark around the beds each spring, leaves gathered once the wind turns. Winter changes the tools but not the route: driveways plowed, walks cleared, salt on the corners that ice over first. There is a particular quiet in a neighborhood after a storm has been pushed off it, everything white except the pavement. Good ground, tended, in the corner of Niagara Falls where the water is still calm.