Early light comes off Silver Lake and lies flat across the grass, and every blade is still carrying water. cglandscapeservicesinc starts its White Plains routes in that hour, when the cut comes up clean and the stripes lie down dark and pale in alternating rows. Past the mowing there is edging along the drives, string trimming where the deck cannot reach, feeding the turf, and fresh mulch worked in around the shrubs each spring. In autumn the leaves get gathered before they smother what took all summer to build. What the crew wants at the end of a route is straightforward — a lawn that looks better than the weather deserved.