South Burlington sits on a long shelf of old farm clay between the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain, where the afternoon light comes in low off the water and lays every yard out gold before dinner. K T Landscaping Inc is a lawn care outfit working that ground — mowing the wide open yards this valley grows so well, edging walks and drives, trimming along fence lines and mailbox posts, and hauling off the leaf-fall that collects in the hollows once the maples turn. There is real satisfaction in a finished pass: the stripes laid straight, the border cut sharp enough to read from the road, the grass standing up clean again. They keep lawns in South Burlington and the towns around it, through the short bright green of a Champlain Valley summer and the long cleanups on either side of it.