Algonquin refuses to lie flat. The streets tilt off the ridge and drop toward the water in grades steep enough that the village made its early name on automobiles grinding up them. PRO LAWNCARE INC. keeps lawns on that pitch, mowing across the slope, running the trimmer under fence lines and along retaining walls, cutting a clean edge on walks that step downhill. Hillside turf dries at the top and stays soft at the bottom, so a cut has to be read yard by yard instead of set once and forgotten. Autumn brings leaves that never stay where they land here, since the wind sends them running down the grade, and gathering them is its own kind of chase. The payoff is a slope that looks deliberate, every line following the shape of the land.