The first cut of the year around Chemung usually lands in April, on some warm bright day after a wet week, and the smell of it carries a half mile down the road. Red's Outdoor Design and Build starts the season there: the winter litter raked off, the matted spots opened up, the grass brought down to an even height that finally makes the yard look like it belongs to somebody again. From then on it is rhythm — a regular cut, crisp edges along the drive and the beds, the walks blown clean before the truck pulls away. Spring on the prairie moves fast once it decides to, and a lawn kept on schedule stays ahead of it. There is real pleasure in the moment a yard turns the corner from brown to green and stays that way.