The growing season in Fort Ann is short and it does not waste a day. From the first green flush in May to the last cut before the hills above Hadlock Pond go bare, AAA Yards & Property Services keeps lawns mowed, trimmed and edged, beds cleared, and yards put right after winter has had its way with them. The ground here is thin and stony in places, Adirondack edge country, so a good lawn is something built rather than assumed. There is real satisfaction in a hillside yard cut level, the border crisp where grass meets gravel, the whole place looking settled beneath the pines. Then the light goes gold in September and the season closes as fast as it opened.