Spring reaches Salmon Falls before it reaches the high fields — the river loosens, the willows go yellow-green, and within a week every lawn in Groveville needs cutting. The season starts with a cleanup: winter sand raked off, matted leaves lifted, the turf given room to come back. Then the weekly rhythm sets in, mowing and trimming and edging until October, when the leaf work takes over and runs until the branches are bare. Buxton's yards sit between pine woods and old farm ground, and a lawn kept even across both is a genuinely good-looking thing. Buxton and the villages along the Saco.