About Washington Association of Landscape Professionals
Before daylight most winter mornings, the yard behind the Washington Association of Landscape Professionals' Eastmont office is the loudest place on the block — tailgates dropping, plow blades going on, crews splitting up routes across the benches and river-bottom streets that run toward Wenatchee and Rock Island. The rest of the year that same yard holds mowers and bins for orchard trimmings, and the crews spend their days on lawns and beds rather than driveways. When snow is in the forecast, the routes get planned the night before around Eastmont's coldest low ground, the stretches where the river fog sits longest and the ice holds well past midmorning. Trucks peel off one by one, working driveways and front walks street by street rather than lot by lot, since a plowed driveway behind an unshoveled walk doesn't get anyone out the door. By midmorning the yard is mostly empty, the bins of orchard trimmings waiting under a light dusting that will likely be gone by afternoon.