On a cold January morning in the citrus belt, the air smells faintly of the night's frost fight and the groves toward Lindsay sit still and silver until the sun clears the ridge. Lawns are dormant-slow then, but they are not on their own — Mejia's Landscape Management keeps cutting and edging through the mild months and clears the yard of whatever the winter storms leave behind. Coming back on schedule in the off months is what makes the spring easy instead of brutal. The measure of the work is a border that stays crisp and a driveway with nothing scattered across it. Porterville gives you a nearly year-round season; the job is to use all of it.