Bill Harvey OutdoorScapes

About Bill Harvey OutdoorScapes

In Rochester the valley floor is narrow and green, and sunlight crosses it in a slow band that travels the mountain wall from morning to dusk. Bill Harvey OutdoorScapes keeps the grass around the village green and up the side roads cut and shaped — steady mowing, trimming tight along fence lines and stone, edges cut so the walkways read clearly from the road. Spring arrives in mud and then all at once, which makes the first cleanup of the year the one that sets the tone: last autumn's leaves lifted away, beds squared off, turf opened to the light. By July a mown yard along Route 100 looks like a page smoothed flat beneath the ridge. The best minute of the day is the last pass, when the stripes line up and the machines go still.