Green shows up along the Mohawk before it shows up anywhere else — a haze on the bottomland first, then the lawns, then everything at once. Green Leaf Lawn Care follows it in: first cuts, weekly mowing, trimming and edging through the long middle of the year, cleanups at either end. Then the river goes quiet under ice and the work turns over entirely. Driveways plowed early, walkways opened wide enough for two people, salt where a morning shadow keeps one patch treacherous all day. Two very different jobs on the same Schenectady and Niskayuna streets, and the same reason for doing either one carefully.