In May the road out of Red Hook toward Tivoli is all new leaf and river light, and everything green is moving at once. Gio's property maintenance takes lawns on at exactly that moment — first cuts, spring cleanups, beds reopened after the winter mess. Keeping a property in order is largely a matter of arriving on schedule, and Hudson Valley grass does not wait for anybody. Mowing, trimming, edging, blowing the walks clear: small tasks in the right order, adding up to a yard someone is happy to pull into. By autumn it is leaves rather than grass, and the same attention goes into getting the ground bare before the cold.