The mower opens with a low steady note and the hands take it from there — the trim line drawn tight along a stone wall, the corner turned clean, the clippings swept back off the walk. ProSeed America keeps lawns in Burrillville, where the mill villages sit low along the Clear River and the land lifts north into pond water, granite and deep woods. Summer evenings, the cut lines hold their stripe across a yard until the light slides off the treetops; come winter, the plow is out early, and a driveway lies open and dark before anyone has reason to look at it. It is plain work with a visible result, and the result is the whole point: a place tended right out to its edges.