The New Lenox thaw is not pretty — matted brown grass, standing water in the low spots along Francis Road, mud tracked across every sidewalk. Nogas Landscaping shows up for that ugly stretch and turns it around with spring cleanups, the first cuts once the ground firms, and trimming and edging that hand the yard back its lines. Two weeks later that same lawn is green and nobody remembers what it looked like in March. On the other side of the year the crews are plowing drives, opening walkways and salting through the freeze-and-thaw that Illinois specializes in. Somebody has to meet the season at its worst, and that is the job.