Fog settles in the hollows between Pleasant Valley and Washington Hollow most summer mornings and burns off by nine, leaving the grass wet and the light long. Elemental Groundz starts once it lifts — mowing, string trimming, edging and cleanups on properties through the hamlet and the back roads around it. Ground down near the creek bottoms grows differently than the dry hillside lots half a mile up, and the cut gets adjusted for that instead of forced. What people remember afterward is the finish: sharp borders, no scalped high spots, walks swept clean. A yard ought to look like somebody decided how it should be.