In April the ground around Chatham finally softens, Sugar Creek runs full and loud, and the redbuds go off along the timber like someone struck a match. That is when the mowing season starts back up for Cajun Lawn Care, and it does not really let go until the leaves are down — cutting, trimming, edging, the grass held even through a growing season that runs hot and long. Winter is its own arrangement: driveways and walkways plowed and cleared, ice knocked back, the path from door to car made ordinary again. Two very different kinds of weather, one town, one truck that keeps showing up. The lawns remember, even if nobody says so out loud.