Mill Pond wakes before the village does, the swans out on flat water and the mist still deciding whether to lift. Affordable Lawn and Landscaping works the mornings around it — mowing, trimming, bed edging and cleanups on the lots that slope down toward the water. There is a satisfaction in the last pass of the mower, when the stripes line up and the border against the walk goes clean as a pencil line. Salt air comes up the harbor and everything green takes it as encouragement. By the time the corner shops unlock, the lawns along the pond look combed.