March at McCollum Park is all mud and hope — soft ballfields, the last gray snow shrinking in the north shadows, everything two weeks out from green. Monaco Landscaping LLC has just wrapped the other half of its year by then: plowed drives, cleared walks, salt on the refreeze that always follows a thaw. Once the ground firms up, the route turns to spring cleanup and then to the weekly rhythm of mowing, trimming and edging that carries Downers Grove into October. Watching a property come back from bare to sharp is why the winter hours are worth keeping. Then the cycle closes and the plow goes back on.