West Bloomington's business blocks empty out after dark, and that is exactly when grounds work gets easiest — no cars on the lot, nothing to mow around. Matthews Grounds Maintenance LLC keeps those properties in order with mowing, trimming and edging in the green months and plowing, shoveling and salting once the pavement turns hard. Snow on a wide open lot is its own problem out here: the wind reloads what you just pushed, so the piles go where they will not blow back. Come morning the aisles are open, the entries are gritted, and the first shift walks in without thinking about it — which is the compliment the work is after. Bloomington, Normal and the surrounding towns, on both sides of the calendar.