The first warm week in Rolling Meadows is unmistakable — the ground softens, Salt Creek runs high through the preserves, and the lawns come back all at once from the road out. Spring Green meets the year right there, with the season's opening cuts and then a steady weekly return: mowing, trimming the corners and borders a deck can't reach, edging the concrete, and clearing the cuttings away. Turf here likes a patient spring and a careful height once the heat arrives, and the schedule matters more than anything fancy. A yard that greens up even, without thin patches, is the reward for showing up on time. From April on, that's the routine.