Spring arrives in Absecon on a soft tide — Absecon Creek loosens, the phragmites go gold-to-green, and lawns that spent February flat and gray start asking for attention. Marrone Lawn Sprinklers takes up that first cut of the year, mowing, edging and tidying until the turf looks awake again and the borders read clean. Through summer it is steady rhythm work: keep the height right, keep the lines honest, keep the clippings off the walk. Then the calendar turns and the same properties need the drive plowed and the path to the door shoveled clear, because coastal snow sets up fast once the wind comes around off the water. A lawn cut well in June and a driveway opened before sunrise in January are the same job, really — looking after the ground somebody lives on.