Spring in the Mohawk Valley arrives in stages. First the ice goes out, then the river flats turn from gray to a bruised green, then one warm week comes along and everything is growing at once. Mohawk Valley Landscaping meets that week head-on with first cuts, edges cleaned back off the walks, and winter's grit and branch litter carried away from lawns up and down the Herkimer streets. The work gets measured in straight passes and square corners, and in yards that read as cared for from the road. Right through the long green months and into the leaf-heavy end of the year, the mower keeps its appointments.