Along Little Salt Wash the willows go first, a green haze on bare branches while the yards in town are still flat and brown and full of whatever the winter blew in. Sparko Services LLC opens the year right there — raking beds out, gathering drifted leaves and broken limbs, hauling the debris off so a yard gets a clean start. After that it settles into mowing and trimming through the growing season, with another full cleanup once the leaves come down. Spring work pays back immediately; a yard can look a season younger by the end of a single afternoon. Fruita keeps returning that early effort all summer long.