Early morning in the Otter Creek valley arrives sideways, light spilling off the Taconics long before it clears the Green Mountains, and that is when the mowers roll out. Evergreen Property Care tends lawns and properties from Rutland up the Killington road to Woodstock, with Mendon, Pittsfield, Bridgewater, and Clarendon strung in between — grass cut clean to the edge, a deck rebuilt board by board, doors and windows set true against a valley winter. There is a plain, physical pleasure in a yard that reads as cared-for from the street: mown lines running square to the house, a porch that holds its shape, sills that shed the weather. In a county of marble-town streets and mountain chalets, the aim is simple — leave the place looking like somebody loves it.