Early in the day the mist sits low over Broad Brook and drifts across the Route 14 fields before the sun works it loose. Mountain Mist Landscaping LLC starts its rounds in that hour, mowing the hill properties and valley yards above Royalton, trimming close to walls and stonework and cutting a defined edge along the drives. Beds are mulched and shaped, spring debris is hauled off once the ground can carry a machine, and the fall leaves come off in stages as the hardwoods turn on their own schedule. Each property up these back roads has its own slope and its own light, and the work is fitted to it. The reward is simple: a lawn that looks composed against a landscape that isn't.