Spring here shows up first as gravel — a whole winter of sand and cinders spread along the drives, then combed into the grass by the melt. Open Solution starts the Woodland Park season right there: raking and blowing that grit back out, lifting the matted needle layer, taking a first cut before the lawn runs away in the first warm stretch. After that it is mowing, trimming and edging on a steady rotation, with aeration to break up soil the snowpack pressed flat and overseeding where the drifts sat longest. Feeding follows the short season here rather than any flatland schedule. By the Fourth of July the lawn has forgotten the entire winter, and it looks it.