May in Laona arrives all at once. One week the yards are flat and gray, the next the grass is ankle-deep and the whole corner of Pomfret smells like it is growing. Burke Lanscaping takes the first cut of the year the way you'd take a first step onto new ice — slow, then sure, then a whole lawn laid open in even rows. Through the warm months it is mowing and trimming and edging, and when the leaves come down over the back roads, the cleanup that hands a yard over to winter in good order. Small work, done at the pace the grass sets, and it shows from the road.