The thaw arrives late up on the Highlands ridge, and for a week the ground at White Meadow Lake is half mud, half memory, with forsythia going off along the driveways like somebody flipped a switch. Vivid Landscaping, LLC starts the year right there — the spring cleanup that pulls winter's litter out of the beds, then the first cut of the season, which always looks better than it has any right to. From that morning on it is a rhythm: mow, edge, trim, repeat, all the way to the far end of autumn. Grass in this part of Morris County grows hard and fast once it decides to, and staying ahead of it is the entire game. The work runs through White Meadow Lake and the Rockaway Township neighborhoods around the water.