Summer is short under Hadley Mountain, so the green comes up in a hurry and gets used hard — camp lawns along the Great Sacandaga, house yards on sandy ground, everything growing at once from June into September. Ground Up Outdoor Restoration works that window: mowing on schedule, trimming around foundations and lake steps, edging the drives, and cleanups at both ends of the short season. Spring means pulling winter out of a yard — plow sand, scattered gravel, matted leaves, branches the wind brought down. Fall means getting the leaves off before the first heavy wet snow presses them flat into the turf. A place that is under snow for five months deserves to look kept through the ones it is not.