The first cut of the year comes sometime in May, after Ransom Creek has run high and gone clear again and the dandelions have made their brief yellow argument. C & C Lawn Care LLC starts its Clarence season right about there and keeps at it until the ground hardens. Weekly mowing, trimming around posts and beds, edging along the drive, and the cleanups that open and close a growing season — that is the whole of it, repeated well. A lawn kept on schedule never looks rescued; it just looks like someone lives there and cares. Spring in this corner of western New York arrives all at once, and this is the work that meets it.