Originally Posted by
RollCNY
In a normal summer, green until fall. Occassional hot Augusts will burn the grass (I pray for them so that I can stop mowing). Honestly, right now is my least favorite time of year in CNY. All of the road salt makes everything dirty brown, and it takes the spring rains to clean up the road areas and liven up the grass for things to get to the correct color. In two to three weeks we will the pretty again.
...in Minneapolis, I remember spring thaw as the time when a winter's worth of frozen dog poop all thawed out at the same time.