April in this county is mud before it is anything else, frost coming out of the ground and the fields going soft between Adrian and Madison Township. Sieler's Landscape & Design waits out that week and then opens the lawn season properly — clearing what winter tore loose, mowing once the turf can carry weight, trimming and edging until the shape of a yard comes back. A lawn is mostly geometry: the mow line, the bed line, the edge along the walk, repeated until it looks easy. Adrian's older lots run long and narrow under mature shade, and each one asks for a slightly different height and pattern. By the first warm Saturday it is a pleasure to hand back a yard that looks ready to be used.