The hills around West Paris hide tourmaline and quartz under a thin skin of soil, which is one reason a lawn here needs some attention to hold its color. Maine Stump Pros works with that ground rather than against it — mowing on a regular cycle, overseeding the bare patches, feeding the turf at the point in the season when it can actually use it. Trimming and edging finish the job, cutting a firm line where grass meets stone, gravel or walk. Spring means clearing out whatever the plow and the frost left behind; autumn means staying ahead of the leaves. A green lawn set against ledge and pine is a small argument won all over again every week.