Late in the day the light on the plains outside Springfield goes long and honey-colored, and every blade of a freshly mown lawn throws its own small shadow. That is the hour the stripes show best. Mission Mowing works the growing season here with mowing, edging, string trimming and end-of-cut cleanup, holding yards to a rhythm from the first green push to the last brown week. Grass in this country earns everything it gets — wind, sun, and not much rain to spare. Keeping it even and clean is a way of answering back.