Up here the growing year is a borrowed thing — the beeches and maples on the ridges west of town go gold in the second week of September and everything begins winding down. Northern Greenlawn North Inc works that whole compressed calendar, mowing, trimming and edging from the last of the snowmelt to the first hard frost. Midsummer the cuts come close together; by late fall the work shifts to cleanups, pulling leaves off turf that will be buried soon enough. There is pride in a lawn that goes into winter well kept and comes out of it ready to go. Short season, full attention.