Colonie is built on sand — the old lakebed under the Pine Bush, pitch pine and scrub oak on ground that was never asked to hold water. Lawns over that soil dry quick and ask for attention, and 4 Brothers Landscaping LLC gives it to them: mowing, edging, trimming, bed maintenance and cleanups when the season turns. Mornings start cool out here even in July, which is the best hour anyone ever gets behind a mower. By the time the neighborhood is properly awake the lines are cut and the driveway is swept. It's a plain kind of good work, and it reads clean from the street.