Route 38 leaves Cortland arrow-straight in both directions, and the corn takes the horizon from there. Bill n' Sons Landscaping works that wide, generous country: mowing and trimming lawns into clean green rectangles all through the DeKalb County summer, then turning to the plow when the fields go white and the wind has nothing left to slow it down. A lawn edged so crisply it looks ruled with a straightedge is worth the second pass, and so is a driveway opened before anyone has to back out of it. Weather here announces itself early — you can watch a squall cross the section lines for twenty minutes before it arrives — and that is time enough to be ready. Cortland, DeKalb, Sycamore, Malta: same ground, same sky, one property at a time.