You can watch a Champaign County thunderstorm coming an hour out — a dark shelf of cloud stacking over the flat fields, then rain that makes everything green explode overnight. S&C Lawn Care LLC works the days right after, mowing lawns that gained four inches while nobody was looking, trimming and edging the borders back into shape, and hauling away whatever the wind brought down. Grass on this ground is generous and unruly in equal measure, which is exactly what makes the finished cut so satisfying. Later in the year the same routes become leaf and cleanup work as the maples let go. Cunningham, Urbana, Champaign and Philo are the neighborhood.