Where the Hannacroix Creek drops toward the Hudson, the woods come right up to the edge of the mown ground, and holding that line is most of the art of a yard in Coeymans. Black Bear Landscape Services keeps it drawn — mowing, trimming back the margins where the brush leans in, edging drives and walks, and clearing the leaf and limb fall the trees hand over every year. May is the wild month, when everything greens at once and a lawn can get away from you in nine days flat. Getting there on time, cutting it even, and leaving the borders crisp is the plain point of the work. The creek keeps running either way; the yard is ours to look after.