The Connecticut River makes its great ox-bow at Newbury, swinging a wide loop of flat meadow out from under the hills — some of the oldest worked ground in Vermont. Lawns on that bottomland grow thick and quick, and a mid-July afternoon down there smells of cut grass and river together. Honey Duo Property Services mows, trims and edges straight through the season and clears the leaves once the hills go bare above the valley. It is good to finish a yard that runs out to the field edge, where the mown line meets the tall grass and simply stops. Newbury, Wells River and the towns nearby make up the area.