Spring arrives in Maumelle as a yellow dust on every windshield, pine pollen drifting down off the loblollies that line these curved, quiet streets. AO Landscaping works those streets on a weekly rhythm — mowing, edging, string trimming, and blowing the clippings back off the drive before anyone comes home. The pleasure is in the finish: a lawn cut at an even height, the walk swept clean, the beds free of winter's leftover litter. Summer here asks a lot of a yard, and the answer is simply showing up again, and again, through the long green months. Come November the same route means leaves, hauled off the turf so the grass can breathe until it sleeps.