J.D.'s Monument Cleaning & Lawn Care

About J.D.'s Monument Cleaning & Lawn Care

Above the Allegheny, in Rayburn Township, the morning fog lifts off the river slowly and the hilltop burying grounds come out of it first. J.D.'s Monument Cleaning & Lawn Care spends its days in those quiet acres and in the yards along the ridge roads north of Kittanning — mowing, trimming close around stone and fence line, and washing years of weather off granite and marble until a name reads plain again. It is careful work, done at a walking pace, the sort that cannot be hurried. By afternoon the grass is cut in even passes down toward the Cowanshannock hollows and the edges are tidied where the mower cannot reach. The stones stand out sharper afterward, and the whole hillside looks like someone remembered it.