Giacomolawnmowing

About Giacomolawnmowing

By seven on a July evening the light comes in sideways along Silver Creek, and Coolidge-McClaine Park fills with the smell of cut grass drifting in from every direction. Giacomolawnmowing is part of that sound in Silverton — the mower's steady back-and-forth, the trimmer's quick work around a maple trunk, the driveway apron blown off last. The route runs week by week through the warm months, because a lawn kept on schedule never has to be fought back, only kept. Stripes laid straight down a front yard, an edge held true along the walk, nothing left scattered on the sidewalk: that is the whole ambition, repeated. Serving Silverton and close by — Mount Angel, Scotts Mills, Sublimity and Stayton.