June in East Alton is bottomland weather — damp air off the Wood River, cottonwoods loud in the wind, grass that puts on an inch while you look away. Clark's lawn care and outdoor services keeps pace with it: mowing on a steady rotation, trimming close around posts and foundations, edging the walks, and hauling off the clippings and yard debris a river-valley summer keeps producing. A few miles west the bluffs stand over the Mississippi at Alton, and the towns down here tend their yards the way they tend their porches — plainly, and well. The best moment in the job is the last pass, when a shaggy lot turns into something with borders again. Lawn care and outdoor work for East Alton and the towns along the bottoms.