The first cut of the year in Cartwright has a smell to it that nothing else does, cold ground and new grass with a little of last fall coming up along with it. Sexton lawncare opens the season by pulling the winter's litter off the turf, then mowing high and even until the yard remembers what it is. Through summer it is the steady rhythm: mow, trim around posts and beds, edge the walk, clear the drive, come back next week and do it again. Autumn puts the leaves down, and they are gathered off before they can pack in and smother anything. A lawn kept this way never looks rescued, only tended, and that is the whole idea.