Wind comes off Hop Brook Lake in April with the last of winter still riding in it, and the grass answers anyway — greener every week until it needs a blade. Gp Landscaping picks the season up there and carries it: the first cut, the raking out of a winter's worth of grit and twig, mulch spread while the ground is still cool. Through summer it is steady mowing and trimming across Naugatuck's flats and slopes, held to a rhythm the lawn can count on. Come autumn the leaves are cleared before they mat down and smother what took all spring to build. Watching a tired yard come back is the best part of the job.