Bethalto has more sky than most towns its size — the airfield on its edge keeps a long green horizon open, and the wind crosses it clean. Turf on that flat Madison County ground grows thick when June rain cooperates and turns stubborn when July does not. Lawn Medic reads the difference and works accordingly: weekly mowing, trimming around every post and border, cutting the edges back along walks and drives, and clearing the yard at the turns of the season. A lawn is a living thing kept on a schedule, and it answers to being held to one. There is a plain pleasure in coming back to a yard that responded to the attention it was given.