Old Route 66 still runs down past Bloomington toward the maple groves, and in autumn the whole corridor goes copper for a few short weeks. Krueger Lawn and Landscape works right through it — mowing while the grass still asks, then leaf cleanup as the color comes down off the trees. By deep winter the alarm goes earlier: plowing drives, clearing walks and spreading salt at four in the morning so lots and entries are safe before the first car turns in. There is a particular quiet to that hour on the prairie, nothing moving but blowing snow and the plow light. Both seasons, same commitment, across Bloomington and the towns that line the old highway.