April in Wales Township is all thaw and mud — frost coming out of the two-tracks, the Black River running high and brown, lawns waking up flattened under whatever the winter left on them. First Response Lawn Maintenance, LLC starts right there with the spring cleanup: raking out matted grass and drifted leaves, clearing sticks and storm debris, and getting a first cut down the week the ground will hold one. From then on it is a rhythm — mowing, edging, trimming — carried through to the last leaf haul in November. Farm yards, subdivision lots and long country drives green up at slightly different rates out here, and the schedule bends to that. The best sign of the work is simple: a lawn that looks like spring arrived on purpose.