Spring arrives in Alden all at once. One week the fields are grey and flattened, the next the ballfield backstops are ringing and every lawn in the village is asking for a first cut. Complete Landscape Service, Inc. starts there and stays through — mowing on a regular turn, edging where grass runs up against drive and walk, and cleanups that clear winter's debris out of the beds. The village lots want precision; the properties toward the town line want stamina; the work is knowing which day calls for which. By June the lines are even and the borders are sharp, and that is what people notice from the street.