In April the brook that gives Roaring Brook Lake its name earns it, running loud and full with meltwater while the lawns beside it are still flattened and gray. Paradise Landscaping INC starts there — spring cleanups that rake out the matted thatch, pull the winter's sticks off the turf and hand the grass back its light. Within a few weeks the mowing begins, weekly, with trimming close to the stone walls and edging that redraws every bed line the frost blurred. By autumn the cycle closes with leaf work, the yard cleared before the ground hardens. Watching a lawn come back from a Putnam County winter is the best part of the year.