April in Rockford is mud, matted grass and a river running high and brown with everything the winter held onto. Exterior Refresh works that turn of the year — spring cleanups, beds cleared, the leaf-pack raked out of the corners where the wind stacked it, the first mow of the season. Under all that flattened brown there is already green, and it only needs the weight taken off. Three weeks later the same yard is standing up, edged, and holding its shape again. That transformation is the whole point of the season, and it never really gets old.