Mirror Lake earns its name most mornings, flat as glass with the Ossipee hills doubled in it. McCarthy Lawn Property Management keeps Tuftonboro lawns to match — mowing on a schedule, trimming and edging where grass meets ledge and gravel, beds mulched, hedges shaped back out of the view. Shorefront ground is thin and rooty, so seed goes down in the cool of September, when it will actually take hold. Spring means clearing whatever winter dropped; late fall means leaves off the lawn before the wind off the water piles them against the house. Lived in year-round or opened up in June, the place looks ready either way.