April in DuPage County is mostly mud and waiting, gray week after gray week, and then one warm Tuesday turns the whole town green at once. Hernandez Lawncare meets that first surge in Addison with the opening cut of the year, lifting winter's matted thatch, tidying the corners, edging back where the turf crept over the walk all last fall. From there it settles into a weekly rhythm, mow, trim, edge, blow off, gone, held right through the long humid middle of summer. There is something plain and good about the first stripe of the season laid across a yard that spent five months under snow. Everything after that is just keeping the promise it made.