Spring reaches Garfield along the Passaic first — the low ground greens up near the water while the hill streets are still brown and waiting. Village Landscaping and Contracting starts the season down there and works its way up: the first cut, the trimming, the raking out of everything winter pressed flat. By June the grass wants attention every single week, and keeping to that week is most of the craft. There is a particular pleasure in a lawn mowed straight against a fence line, no ragged corner, nothing missed behind the shed. It is a compact town on a river, and it shows off beautifully when it is kept.