Grundy Center sits in the kind of open north-central Iowa ground where a storm announces itself from miles off, visible crossing the flat fields before it ever reaches the courthouse square, and A Cut Above Buhrow Lawn Care and More, LLC uses that lead time well. Black Hawk Creek threads through the county a few miles off, more a line on the map than anything this crew works around directly, while the real work is the long straight driveways this part of the county is built on — farmstead lanes that run a hundred yards or more before they ever reach a road. Grain elevators mark the edge of town from any direction, and on a clear morning after a storm they're the first thing sunlight catches while the crew is still working the last few driveways in shadow. There's an honest satisfaction in a long lane scraped down to gravel, banks squared off at the edges, before a grower needs to get a truck out to the highway. Grundy Center empties out fast on a winter morning, most of the county's business happening somewhere else, and this crew is often the only traffic on these roads before the rest of it starts.