West of DeKalb the windbreaks stand in dark green rows, planted to keep the northwest wind off the farmhouses and the lanes that run back to them. Blue spruce landscape llc works the lawns in that shelter — the mowing, the trimming, the edging that turns a yard from grown-over to finished in an afternoon. Late May is the sweetest stretch, when the prairie soil is still cool and the grass comes back thick after every cut. A lawn gets read the way you read weather here: where it drains, where it burns, where it wants one more pass. What's left behind is a yard that looks tended even from the road.