Morning comes up the Raritan first, sliding along the water below Boyd Park before it ever reaches the porches on French Street. Fresnos Landscaping and Tree Service LLC works those early hours in New Brunswick, mowers running while river fog is still lifting off the towpath and the day's first stripes go down across a front yard. There is real satisfaction in the finish here: an edge cut straight along a sidewalk that has carried a century of footsteps, clippings swept back off the walk, a lawn that reads cared for from the curb. Summer in the Hub City arrives humid and fast, grass jumping between storms, and the route keeps pace block by block from the Fifth Ward out toward Highland Park and North Brunswick. By October the maples near Buccleuch Park let go all at once, and the crew stays ahead of them, clearing leaves so the turf goes into the cold breathing. It is plain work on ground people walk past every day, and it shows.