Down in the Shenango bottoms the willows leaf out first and the ground stays soft well into May. Frenchy's Lawn & Landscape starts the year there and works up the bank into town — the first cut of a lawn that has been waiting all winter, trimming out the fence corners, edging where silt and grass blurred the line of the walk. Spring cleanup is half the job in river ground: everything the high water and the wind left behind, gathered and gone. After that comes the weekly rhythm of mowing through the long green months, with mulch laid where the beds want it. The river takes its time; the yards along it do not have to.