There's a morning in April when the shadow of Avon Mountain pulls back off the lawns a little earlier than the day before, and suddenly the grass is growing again. Todd's Turf Care starts the year right there — raking out what the winter left, cleaning the beds, taking the first cut a touch high to let the turf wake up on its own terms. From then until the leaves come down it's a rhythm: mow, trim close around the mailbox and the maple, run a sharp edge along the driveway, sweep the walk clean. Avon's soils vary block to block, from the sandy stretches near Secret Lake to the heavier ground down toward the river flats, and the mowing height follows the ground and the weather rather than the calendar. Green, even, and cleanly bounded — that's what a lawn should look like from the road, and that's what stays after the truck pulls away.