Spring reaches the Winfield hills as mud first and green second, and by the time the roadside ditches run clear the lawns are ready for hands. R B Mini Excavating & Landscaping works that ground straight through the growing months — regular mowing, string trimming along stone walls and foundations, a cleanup when the frost lets go and another after the last leaf is down. This is glacial country, clay and cobble under a thin skin of topsoil, so turf that comes in thick and level here has been earned. Late in the day, when the light runs long across the hilltops south of the village, a freshly cut yard reads like a page smoothed flat. The work covers West Winfield and the crossroads nearby — Winfield, Bridgewater and Cedarville among them.