Spring comes up Lockhart Street a week before it reaches the hillsides. The maples in Howard Elmer Park go from bare to full while the town is still deciding whether to put the shovels away, and that is when the season opens for Dave's Lawn Care & Design. The work runs from weekly mowing to the shaping of beds and borders — the part where a yard stops being a rectangle and starts being a plan. A bed cut clean along its curve and mulched dark will hold that line all summer. Sayre's older streets have modest front yards where the small decisions carry, and those decisions get made for homes across Sayre, Athens and Waverly.