Spring gets ahead of you in Marmora. One week the ground is still cold and the pines are the only green thing standing on the peninsula's last high ground; the next, every lawn in the neighborhood has jumped an inch overnight. Madara's Lawn Care meets it with a weekly cut, clean edges at walks and driveways, trimming around posts and fence lines, and beds turned and mulched before the heat sets in. Nothing looks better on a sandy lot than grass that has been kept honest from the start of the year. Marmora is the base, and the route carries on through Seaville, Palermo, Tuckahoe and the rest of Upper Township.