March in Taylor arrives on wind — days of it, lifting dust off the fields and rattling the last dry leaves out of the trees. White Mountain Testing opens the yard year in that wind: raking out winter litter, cutting back dormant growth, pulling the weeds that always green up first along walks and gravel. By May the turf has come around and the work settles into its rhythm — cut, trim, edge, blow the walks clean. Up at this elevation green is earned rather than handed over, which makes a well-kept lawn read like an accomplishment. That round runs through Taylor, Snowflake and the small places strung between them.