The thaw arrives in Mason a few inches at a time: gray days, water standing in the ditch lines, the fields out in Vevay Township going soft and dark. Mendez Lawn and Landscape, LLC waits for the ground to firm and then opens the season with the first mow, the trimming, the cleanup of everything the melt uncovered. Through summer it becomes a weekly rhythm of cutting and edging, keeping a yard looking deliberate right up to the curb. When the cold returns the trucks change over to plowing, shoveling and salting drives and walks before daylight. Same properties, same people, a different tool in hand.