Twice a day the Medomak fills the flats below Waldoboro and then hands them back to the mud, and the lawns above the river keep their own slower rhythm. Colson's Lawn & Landscape works that green shelf of ground between Broad Bay and the back roads — mowing, edging, mulch laid dark in the beds, cleanups in April when the ground finally lets go of winter. There is a particular satisfaction in the last pass along a stone wall, where the blade line goes true and the yard suddenly looks like someone loves it. Summer here is short and generous, so the work starts early, while the dew is still down and the light is coming up over the water. Come October the maples along Route 220 turn the whole town copper, the leaves come off in windrows, and the lawns go into the cold raked bare and even.