April in Berthoud can be the cruelest month and the kindest one in the same week — lilacs budding on Tuesday, eight wet inches bending them flat by Thursday. Greening Up Landscape works right through that hinge, plowing driveways and shoveling walks while the snow is on, then mowing, trimming and edging the moment the grass remembers what it is for. Spring snow is dense and short-lived, so the work is fast and the payoff is immediate: pavement dark and steaming by noon. A few weeks later the same yards are green enough to hurt your eyes. Watching a place come back is most of the pleasure.