Auburn wakes with the water. Fog stands in long ribbons over Lake Massabesic until the sun burns through it, and the day opens green. Green Mantis Landscaping LLC works those early hours, mowing while the dew still holds a line and running the trimmer close along walks, walls and fence posts. Beds get edged to a clean lip of soil, mulch laid dark and even, and the clippings carried off so a lawn looks finished rather than merely cut. Cleanups come at either end of the season, once when the ground finally thaws and again when the maples let go. The reward is plain and worth the sweat — a yard in Auburn that reads as cared for from the road.