The ice goes off Barth Pond before anybody trusts the weather, and for a couple of weeks Downers Grove is brown grass, bright sun and mud tracked onto the sidewalk. That is when SCOTTS LAWN CARE BUSINESS starts the year — a spring cleanup first, pulling out everything winter left behind, then the first cut that changes a yard's whole face. After that it's the weekly round: mow, trim, edge, clear, gone before you're back from work. The village grows a heavy, shady kind of turf that likes attention and shows it when it gets some. By November the route is leaves, and then the ground goes hard again and waits.