Ice-out on Lake Flower is the real beginning of the year in Saranac Lake — dark water pouring through the dam again, the last gray plates going out with the current, and then the village turns green almost overnight. ACR Landworks works that compressed season hard: mowing, trimming, edging along walks and stone, and the cleanup that gets a yard out from under six months of winter. Growing weather is short in the Adirondacks, so nothing here waits; when the grass starts moving, the crew moves with it. A dooryard cut and raked in early June, with snow still tucked in the shaded folds of the mountains, is about as good as this town looks. Saranac Lake and the nearby communities are on the route.