US-62 runs east out of Prague through Paden and on toward Okemah, past round bales lined up in stubble and hay meadows going the color of weak coffee in October. Sign Gypsies Prague/Okemah covers that stretch of country, tending yards in towns small enough that the highway is also the main street. Fall out here is the kindest season — cool mornings, dry air, grass slowing down and finally easy to stay ahead of. The work is cutting, trimming, edging and clearing, the steady sort of upkeep that makes a farmhouse yard look squared away against all that open ground. The drive between jobs is not bad either, which counts for something.