In May the fields at Mercer Meadows go tall and silvery in the wind and Rosedale Lake holds the sky flat all afternoon — Pennington's growing season announcing itself. Cedar Creek Landscapes keeps pace with it, mowing on a steady rotation, edging beds and walkways, trimming the corners a mower can never quite reach. Grass in the Hopewell Valley runs hard through spring and asks for a lighter hand by August, so the schedule bends to the turf rather than the calendar. Cleanups bracket the year: brush and winter litter out in April, leaves off the grass before the ground closes in November. The reward is a lawn that looks tended even on the days nobody was there.