Wind crosses Thomas Reservoir with almost nothing to slow it, and Erie yards learn to live with that — grass laid flat one afternoon, standing green again the next. AC Lawn keeps pace through the long growing stretch with mowing, edging and trimming, then turns to plowing and shoveling when storms stack up over the range. Snow here can be gone by noon or hang on for a week; either way the drive gets opened and the walk gets treated down to a surface with grip. Spring cleanups pull out the winter's litter of twigs and blown grit before the mower ever starts. It is ordinary work carried all the way to the edges, which is the only place anyone actually looks.