Adel's evenings in late spring belong to the fireflies and to the smell of grass cut that same afternoon. Waldon & Sons services works toward that hour — mowing through the day's heat, trimming close where the deck cannot reach, edging the walk, then blowing everything off the drive so the last look is a clean one. A yard is a small public thing here; it is what the street sees of a house, and getting it right is worth doing on schedule rather than once it has gotten away. The growing season around Cook County runs long and runs hard, which suits steady weekly hands. Adel first, and the towns just up and down the road after that.