Climb Haledon Avenue out of Paterson and the yards begin to stack — little terraces, retaining walls, lawns tilting toward the street like they are leaning in to listen. E Miranda landscaping LLC works those slopes in spring, when everything wakes up at once and the whole hill goes bright inside of two weeks. Mowing a pitched lawn takes a different hand than a flat one, and the edges along a stepped walk have to be cut, not guessed. Beds get mulched, hedges get squared back off the railings, and the winter's grit gets raked out of the corners. Standing at the curb afterward, looking up a hillside yard that finally lines up, is the good part of the day.