Spring reaches Hamlin from the creek bottoms first, where the water runs cold and full toward Lake Ontario and the low ground greens a week ahead of everything else. Creekside Home & Lawn Care LLC starts the year down there, clearing winter's litter off the lawns, then settles into mowing, trimming and edging week after week. Ground near water grows differently — softer, faster, quicker to rut — so the work is done with an eye on where a mower belongs and where it does not. By June the yards along those roads are even and green right up to the treeline. It is a good thing to drive past at the end of a day.