In July the light lasts a long time over Coal City, and the lawns hold their color late into the evening. Carving Yards Landscaping mows through those long weeks — straight passes across the big flat yards this town has room for, then the trimming that turns a mowed lawn into a finished one. When the Mazon River runs low and the prairie grass goes gold, the work shifts to cleanups, and after that to the plow. Winter here is a matter of getting out before the wind has time to fill a drive in a second time, clearing to the concrete and salting the walks behind it. Two seasons, one property, tended all the way around the year.