April shows up first on Kennedy Drive, where the tree strips go green a week ahead of everything else and Lodi's yards wake all at once. Awesome lawn & landscape llc starts the year there with cleanups and a first cut, then keeps mowing and edging going straight through to the last warm Saturday in October. Leaf work follows, pulled out of narrow side yards where a rake still beats a machine. When the cold turns, the same crew plows the driveways, clears the walks and salts the steps that glaze over in the shade. Two square miles of borough, and a great many of them worth keeping sharp.