Late in the afternoon the light comes down off Aldis Hill and lies long across Saint Albans City, and every kept lawn below shows its stripes. Green Valley Repair works those yards on a steady weekly rhythm — cutting, trimming close along fences and foundations, hauling the leaves off when October empties the street maples. The city sits on a slope running toward the bay, so no two properties drain quite alike, and half the job is reading the ground under your feet. Grass here is generous; it mostly asks that somebody show up. Come dusk the mower goes quiet and the yard sits there looking exactly the way its owner had pictured it.