The first cut of April changes everything. C & W Lawn Service opens the season while the maples along Berlin's side streets are still only half leafed out and the grass comes up thick with dew still sitting on it. From there it's a steady rhythm — mow, trim, edge, blow the clippings back off the walk — week after week until the leaves come down and the last cleanup closes the year out. A lawn kept on schedule is a different animal from one rescued in July: it thickens, it evens out, it forgives a dry spell. That's the whole idea, carried all the way through the growing season across one small borough's worth of yards.