Along the White River flats the ground in Rochester runs level for a mile or so before the hills take it back, and everything green there gets a long turn in the sun. Hamilton Cattle Company mows and tends those yards through the growing months — regular cuts, trimming around posts, gates and outbuildings, and cleanups at both ends of the year. Grass in this valley comes on hard after a wet week, so the route keeps moving and nothing is left to get ahead of itself. There is a plain kind of pleasure in a broad lawn finished before the afternoon warms, clippings swept off the walk, the border standing sharp. When October empties the hillside all at once, the leaves get gathered the same unhurried way.