East of town the lots widen toward hayfields and hedgerows, and late-summer light lies across them the color of weak tea. Jasmoarllc mows and maintains lawns out that way and in Poughkeepsie proper — weekly cutting, trimmed borders, shrubs kept in bounds, beds mulched, leaves gathered once the maples let go. Bigger yards ask for a plan: which way the passes run, where the slope drains, which corner always grows fastest. Get that right and the whole property reads calm from the road. It is a quiet sort of work, and the result speaks for a week at a time.