Rochester turns purple in the third week of May, when the lilacs open in Highland Park and the whole city goes outdoors at once. California Landscaping meets that season in the yards around it — the tight back lots of the South Wedge, the deeper ones out toward Brighton — mowing, edging against sidewalk and drive, and reaching the corners a deck cannot. Through summer the Genesee keeps the air heavy and the grass keeps coming; by October it is leaves, endless and beautiful, off the old street maples. Coverage runs across Rochester and into Brighton, Irondequoit, Gates and Greece. A straight-cut lawn on a narrow city lot has a dignity of its own.