The Tail's End

About The Tail's End

Battle Ground keeps its evenings long in July, and the light comes down slow over the crater rim at Battle Ground Lake, gold across every yard between there and Meadow Glade. That is the hour The Tail's End likes best: mower parked, the last pass laid down all in one direction, the edge along the walk cut so clean you could set a plumb line to it. Lawn care in this corner of Clark County means keeping pace with rain that grows grass faster than anyone expects, so mowing, trimming and edging come around steady, week after week, spring into fall. When the maples let go in October the work turns to raking and hauling it away, so the turf goes into the wet months breathing instead of smothered. It is small work, done close to the ground, and it shows from the road.