The island's spine lifts at Todt Hill, and nothing green up there agrees to lie flat. Lawns tilt off toward the harbor, old oaks drag their shade across the grass all afternoon, and roots surface in the turf like knuckles. Grassroot Landscaping works that grade — mowing, edging, trimming — and comes back for the cleanups when the leaves let go along Ocean Terrace in one long week of wind. Holding a cut line straight across a sloping yard is a small act of stubbornness, and it reads from the street the moment you turn onto it. From the ridge roads down through Emerson Hill, the aim never changes: leave a place looking looked-after.