Remsen sits where farm country starts folding upward into the Adirondack foothills, and the green season is short enough that nobody here wastes a week of it. Alder Creek Lawn Care LLC mows and maintains lawns all the way through it — the village yards along Route 12, the long ones out where Cincinnati Creek runs cold under the road. Grass arrives late up here and then arrives hard, and the first real cut of June is a pleasure, the ground finally dry and the whole yard changing color in an afternoon. Trimming, edging and cleanups fill in around the mowing, and by the time the hills go copper the leaves are already being gathered. A short summer teaches you to use every hour of it.