Westernville stands where the Mohawk is still a young river, running down out of the Delta Lake country toward Rome. Summers here are green and generous; the grass hardly quits, and a lawn left a week too long turns into hay. Steve's Cleanouts and Property Services stays ahead of it — mowing, trimming around posts and outbuildings, and clearing the yard of brush, limbs and whatever the season has dropped. Autumn is the real labor, the hardwoods on the Tug Hill side letting go all at once and the wind stacking it into every fence corner. A lawn raked bare and cut short in late October looks like an act of faith, and come April it pays back. Westernville, Western, Lee Center, Ava and the outskirts of Rome are all within reach.