Winter here is short and honest — frost silvering the fescue on a few January mornings, the Bermuda gone straw-gold and sleeping, a handful of weeks when nothing at all is growing. Evergreen Lawn Service uses that pause the way it ought to be used, clearing yards of leaf and debris so the ground is ready when the green comes back. Then the mowers start again, and the trimming and edging and cleanup fall into their long-season rhythm. Watching a dormant lawn wake up under a first cut is one of the better parts of the job. It happens every year on these same streets around Big Creek.