Spring rain crosses Chautauqua Lake in soft gray sheets, and the south-shore ground at Lakewood goes from frozen to workable almost overnight. Chautauqua Hydroseeding lays seed, mulch and tack down in one green wash over bare dirt, then watches a slope turn from mud to a haze of new blades. Lakeside lots want that in a hurry — one hard rain on unplanted ground and half the grade heads for the water. Getting a lawn started properly is the sort of thing nobody notices afterward, which is exactly the point. By early summer the seams have vanished and the whole thing simply reads as lawn.