Out at the west edge of Batavia, Nelson Lake Marsh keeps its own calendar — blackbirds riding the cattails in April, sandhill cranes calling high over the water come October. A few minutes east, in the neighborhoods, Andreu Landscaping keeps lawns and planting beds on the flat, generous ground that marsh drains into. The season runs long here: mowing and trimming week after week, borders held, leaves gathered before the ground locks up for winter. The reward is simple and visible — a yard that reads as cared for from the curb, every time. That is landscaping work done close to home, for Batavia and the towns just past its edges.