Water is the first thing and the last thing on a lawn out here. JC Sprinklers & Landscaping opens the year with spring startups, heads adjusted, zones checked, the fine spray catching low light over Flower Hill, and closes it with blowouts before the lines can freeze. In between there is cutting, trimming, edging and bed care, the ordinary work that irrigation exists to serve. Winter turns the trucks toward plowing and shoveling, drives and walkways cleared, ice treated wherever the grade keeps shade. The ground around Baxter Pond stays damp and its ice is patient, which is precisely why somebody has to be out early.