Noon in July out here is all cicada noise and no shade, with a single post oak throwing the only cool patch in the whole yard. Beau's Landscaping starts long before that, cutting while the grass still gives easily and the dust has not yet come up off the section roads. Mowing, trimming along beds and foundation walls, edging, then a pass with the blower to send the clippings back where they belong. The payoff is a place that looks calm in the hottest part of the day: stripes laid straight, borders sharp, walks bare. Guthrie to Coyle, that is how a yard gets left.