The first mow of May — when the cattails at Tifft are still last year's brown and everything else has gone electric green — is the best day on the schedule. Benji's Lawncare & Landscape opens the season then, cutting yards along Ohio Street and out toward the Southtowns as the ground finally dries out. Every visit is the same sequence: mow, trim the corners, edge the drive, clear the clippings off the concrete. Cleanups come in spring for winter's leftovers and again in fall for the leaves that all arrive at once. Buffalo's growing season is short, which is exactly why every week of it gets used.