Spring comes up out of the bottomland first — the low ground near Zarephath greens a full week ahead of the higher stretches. Churchill Grounds Landscaping starts its season down there and works uphill: first mow, first edge, a whole winter's worth of sticks and matted leaves raked out of the beds. By the second cut a lawn has stopped looking like it survived something and started looking like it is growing again. Mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups, week over week across Franklin Township, is how that happens — not in a single afternoon, but in a rhythm.