Alden sits up in the rolling ground near the Wisconsin line, where the ice age left the hills folded and the low spots hold water and morning mist well into June. White Pine Landscaping works those yards through the green months — mowing, trimming close around posts and outbuildings, edging the drives, and clearing the yard down when the season turns over. Grass runs hard here once the nights warm, and staying ahead of it takes a steady week-to-week rhythm. Long acreage lawns and small village lots both get the same attention at the finish line along a walk or a fence. On a clear McHenry County evening, a place just cut looks like the countryside was built around it.