Easton sits on sand — the old river country of Mason County, where the soil runs pale and light and the melon fields give it away every August. Williams Lawn & Landscaping/Snow Removal knows what that ground asks for: mowing on a rhythm, edges cut true, borders held in shape through the long green stretch of summer. When the harvest trucks quit the roads and the first hard freeze rolls up off the Illinois River bottoms, the work changes over to plowing drives and opening walks. In a village this size, everybody's headlights are pointed the same direction by seven, so the clearing happens well before that. There's pride in both halves of the year, and the colder half is quieter and just as worth doing.