Although this winter's snow has been particularly harsh on landscape and golf courses, it won't stop summer's favorite pastime.
Underneath all that white stuff -- someday -- there will be a sea of green. There could be fewer shrubs, trees and bushes, however.
"There's not really any headaches with the snow on the grass right now, but the plant material could get worse with the piling of the snow," landscaper Ed Terrazas said. "There is no place to put the snow anymore. So it ends up in the planting beds and bushes, and woody plants are getting snapped off. That's where the major damage is going to be."
Terrazas, from GrowGreen Landscape & Maintenance in Greeley, Colo., said young trees with snow piled up on the limbs could also be at risk.
Also causing some worry is the flooding and standing water that a quick melt down could cause. If water stands for much more than two weeks it could begin to kill the grass. People should be careful not to roll equipment over flooded landscape, Terrazas warned.
Although it's unlikely the heavy winter will cause much concern for residential grasses, golf courses have been keeping busy playing catch-up with the storms to keep their greens clean.
Scott Banghart, superintendent of Pelican Lakes and Pelican Falls golf courses at Water Valley in Windsor said his crew just finished digging out again to prevent winter kill there. Although Banghart had laid snow mold protection on the greens, its protection is good for about only 40 days, so crews had to get the snow off the greens.
Banghart said it has taken six guys with snow blowers to stay caught up.
"It's been ongoing for weeks," he said. "When the last storm blew in, everything shut back up. We had it done once but had to start over. In our climate, with the freeze and thaw, it became a layer of ice underneath the snow that we had to get off there."
Not concerned with the snow, however, is Dave King, owner of Triple Crown Sports in Fort Collins.
The sports management company is gearing up for the start of baseball season, with tournaments beginning March 3. But King hasn't given any thought to the idea of canceling any tournaments.
"If we get to the middle of February and it is still here, we might start looking at it," he said. "But I'm not guessing that will happen. The normal late February early March melts should take care of it all."
King is also not concerned of too much water when it all melts.
"This is such a dry state, when it melts it goes," he said.