Up in the northern tier the hills come in long green waves, and Gillett sits where the road follows the creek bottom between them. Bump and Beyond Contracting LLC keeps lawns in that country — mowing, trimming, edging and clearing off the season's growth on properties strung out along the valley roads. July here smells like cut grass and cut hay at the same time, and a tidy yard set against all that open farmland reads like a well-made bed. The season runs from the first flush of spring to the last leaf down in October, week after unhurried week. It is honest ground to work on.