Along the west shore, where Greilickville trades the marina for the rise of Elmwood Township, late May finally lets go — lilacs out, the water turning an unreasonable blue, and grass growing faster than anyone can keep up with. West Side Property Maintenance keeps up with it: mowing every week so no yard gets away, trimming along seawalls, fences and outbuildings, edging drives and walkways, mulch in the beds, and cleanups when the season opens and when it closes. Properties over here tend to run narrow and long, tipping down toward the water, so the mowing lines matter and so does keeping clippings out of the bay. Fertilizing and weed control run on the northern calendar, a few weeks behind the rest of the state. What is left at the end of a visit is a piece of ground that looks like it was meant to be there.