There's nothing in this work like the first cut of the year: the mower catches, the smell rises, and a yard that spent the winter looking like an afterthought turns back into a lawn in twenty minutes. New Clippings Landscaping LLC lives for that morning and then earns it for the next thirty weeks — mowing, trimming, edging, cleaning up what falls and what blows in off the street. Long Branch springs arrive damp and stay that way a while, so the early cuts are careful ones. After that it's showing up, again and again, until November says otherwise. The lawns keep the score.