Chebanse is a village with a county line running through the middle of it and a railroad running the length, so the day gets measured out in freight trains and the shadow of the grain elevator. Trim-N-Time Lawn Care & Feed-N-Time Feeds keeps the village's grass in hand from the first warm week of May onward — mowing, string trimming around foundations and posts, edging the walks so the lines stay honest. Out here the black soil grows a lawn as eagerly as it grows corn, and it will get away from you in a hurry if nobody is paying attention. The pleasure is in the after: a small-town yard cut level, the clippings gone, the whole lot looking deliberate. It reads well from the road, which in a village this size is most of the audience.