In the Aviation Sub, where the streets carry the names of fliers, spring shows up as mud first and green second. J&C lawn services starts the year raking winter grit and salt burn out of the turf, clearing beds, cutting the edges back to a line, and mowing once the ground firms up. Cleanup is unglamorous work and it decides everything that comes after — no one grows a good lawn on top of last year's mess. Through the summer it settles into mowing, trimming, and shaping the shrubs on a steady rotation. By June the yards look as though nothing rough ever happened to them.