Out past the northeast edge of town the old stone walls run off through the woods, and the yards along those roads wake early — crocus in the beds while the shade still holds frost. Ricardo's Lawn and Landscaping starts the Poughkeepsie season on ground like that and works its way back in: cleanups, beds cut and defined, dark mulch laid, shrubs pruned, then the mowing that carries all the way to November. A fresh mulch line against new green is one of the plainest good-looking things in the trade. The rest of the year is keeping that line true. Every week, same attention.