By August the corn stands taller than the trucks on Route 45 and the heat comes up off the pavement in sheets, so the good mowing hours in Chebanse are early and late. Turf Treet Lawncare takes them both — cutting, trimming and edging while the light is long and the grass is not fighting the sun for every inch. A lawn in this part of Iroquois County will go brown and come back twice in a season, and reading which of the two it is doing keeps the mower honest. There is a plain kind of pride in a yard finished at dusk, everything level, nothing ragged at the fence. After that the crickets get the place to themselves.