Late April in North Tonawanda arrives as a sound before it arrives as a sight — mowers waking up on the side streets of Wurlitzer Park while the maples are still making up their minds. That first cut of the year is the one Andrew Paul Landscaping likes best: grass finally lifting after months of gray, and a yard that looks awake again by suppertime. Through the summer the mowing stays on rhythm, the trimming gets into the corners a deck can't reach, and the edge along the sidewalk stays crisp enough to run a finger down. Then autumn buries the same lawns under leaves off the old street trees, and the cleanup work begins in earnest. It is lawn care for North Tonawanda and the towns just past it, one property at a time.