On the first warm Saturday after the thaw, every yard in town is still wearing its winter — matted grass, drifted leaves in the fence corners, grit thrown up from the street. Cleanup is where this work begins: raking, blowing, hauling debris away, and getting a lawn ready to be cut rather than merely cut over. From there it becomes the steady round of mowing, trimming and edging through the Dixon summer, then the autumn version of the same job when the trees let go. Tidiness is the whole product here, and it is easy to see when it has been done. Dixon, Sterling, Rock Falls and Amboy.