The first real cut of April is a small event in Goshen, when the gray finally breaks, the pastures go loud with green and every yard on the road needs attention on the same Saturday. Yard Cards NWA is out for that opening week, knocking down the winter shag, edging the drives back to their true width and hauling off what the storms left behind. Northwest Arkansas keeps growing toward this town from the west, new streets and new houses, and a clean lawn is how a place says it is being kept and not just occupied. Weekly cuts follow, the trimmer tracing mailboxes and fence posts, the blower sending the last of it back onto the grass. From then on the yard just keeps looking like spring.