April rain in Hempstead is patient rain — it soaks in for days, the ponds at Hempstead Lake come up, and by the first dry weekend every lawn in town needs cutting at once. Pacific Lawn Sprinklers meets that rush with a mower and a straight line, working mowing, trimming and edging on properties across the Town of Hempstead. A first cut of the year has real craft in it: the yard comes back from winter looking deliberate again. Through summer the route repeats, week on week, and in fall the leaves come off the turf and out of the beds. Ordinary lawn care, kept up, on Long Island ground that rewards it.