Piasa Creek comes down out of the hills north of Alton through bottoms full of goldenrod and gravel, and the yards out that way sit half in town and half in country. BK'S Lawn Care and Landscaping mows those wide lots and trims the fence lines where the field keeps trying to climb back in. When January locks the ground, the same work turns to pushing open drives long enough to make a person grateful for a truck. A country driveway cleared end to end, banks squared off, salt down at the apron, is its own kind of good news on a dark morning. Mowing, trimming and snow clearing for the places where Alton runs out into the fields.