The first warm week of April is loud in Lake View — meltwater in the ditches, mud drying on the shoulders, and every lawn in the hamlet suddenly wanting attention all at once. Veteran's Seasonal Services meets it there, with the year's opening cut, the spring cleanup that pulls winter's debris off the turf, and the trimming and edging that give a yard its shape back. That first mow is the one worth waiting for: the smell of it carries down the block, and a lawn that looked flattened in March stands up green by suppertime. From there it's a steady cadence of mowing and tidying, week by week, until the leaves come down again in the fall. Lake View lawns, kept in order from thaw to freeze.