Green is less a color out here than a long argument with the weather, won one week at a time. Forever Green Lawn Care LLC takes it up in late April, when Vernon lawns come out of the thaw pale and flattened and need cutting, edging, and the winter's litter hauled off. Rain arrives in warm gray sheets, the grass answers, and the mowing rhythm settles in for the summer. Come November those same yards get their fall cleanup and go under cover tidy. It is patient, repeating, deeply satisfying work — a lawn holding its color while everything around it gives up.