Summer up here is short and it knows it. By the middle of June the grass around Boulder Junction has gone from brown thatch to deep green in about three weeks, and it holds that color hard until the nights turn. Customized Landscaping and Home Renovations works those bright months — mowing, trimming, pulling the winter's grit out of the beds, laying mulch dark against the sandy soil everything in this county grows in. Lawns here are really clearings, small green rooms carved out of maple and birch, and the pleasure is in the line where mown grass meets the woods: crisp, deliberate, unmistakably tended. Mornings begin cool with mist coming off the water and end with the smell of cut grass hanging in still air. It is a good way to spend a northern summer.