When the headgates open in May, ditch water starts running through Carbondale's back lots with a sound like a small conversation, and the whole town turns green within a fortnight. Spring Creek Land & Waterscapes works that season from its first week — mowing lawns as they come on, cutting clean edges where grass meets gravel and stone, clearing away the flattened litter the snow left behind. Dandelions arrive with the festival that shares their name, and the mowers keep pace right through summer's push. Autumn brings the other end of the job, leaves gathered and carried off before the ground freezes. It is ordinary, seasonal, satisfying work, and the yards say so.