Thaw comes off Tully Mountain in late March and runs downhill through Orange in a hurry, leaving lawns sodden, matted and impatient for a first cut. New Age Landscaping meets the year right there, cleaning up what winter tore loose and getting the grass standing again before the black flies find it. Summer settles into rhythm — mowing, trimming, edges kept crisp along drives and walkways — while the water over toward Tully Lake goes warm and slow. Then January turns the whole north country hard and blue, and the trucks go out plowing through the small hours so the roads out of town are the only thing anyone has to worry about. Two seasons, one habit: leave the place better than the weather left it.