A year in Collinsville can be told entirely in turf: green showing by late March, the first cut a week behind it, growth all through a wet spring, then heat, then the slow gold of October. The work follows that clock — mowing and trimming on the week, edges kept sharp, cleanups at both ends of the year. Once the calendar rolls past the last leaf, it changes over to plowing and salting, drives and walks opened before the day gets going. This is a valley town where weather comes in from the west with very little warning, so timing is most of the trade. Right work, right week, all the way around.