Mud season in St. Armand is honest about what lies underneath: sand, roots, and the old grey boulders the glaciers left standing in half the yards. Rock Solid Patios works with what is there through the green months — mowing lawns on a regular schedule, trimming close around stone, steps and foundations, edging beds and drives back to a defined border, and running cleanups to open the year and to close it once the leaves are down. Mowing around ledge and rock is slow work that no machine does for you, and doing it well is the difference between a kept yard and a mowed one. By early summer the grass has closed over the winter's scars, and a lawn set against grey stone and dark spruce looks like it belongs exactly there. That is the whole aim: a place that looks settled into its own ground.