East of Vanderbilt the jack pine and hardwood ridges run out into elk country, and the growing season up there is short enough that you notice every green week of it. Ormsbee's Landscaping LLC works both ends of that calendar — mowing, trimming and edging from late May until the frost gets serious, then plowing and clearing once winter takes the map back. Northern lawns ask for a light hand: sandy ground, cold nights, grass that greens late and then holds its color deep into October. When the plow goes back on the truck, a drive opened at dawn becomes the first good thing of the day. Serving Vanderbilt, Gaylord, Elmira and the surrounding Otsego County roads.