Spring reaches Elizabeth in a rush; one week the ground near Mickey Walker Park is still gray, and the next everything is green and asking to be cut at once. Y&G New Creations Landscaping LLC opens the season right there with cleanups — winter debris off the beds, matted leaves lifted, the lawn combed out and given some air. Then the weekly rhythm settles in: mowing, edging along walks and drives, trimming the corners a mower will never reach. A yard given that attention early holds its shape the whole way to October. There is a good feeling in standing at the curb when a place suddenly looks like somebody is paying attention to it.