Down in Saline County the growing season is generous — green arrives early in Eldorado and holds on late, with the Shawnee hills going blue along the southern horizon. Brown Landscaping mows straight through that long stretch, edging walks and drives, feeding and treating turf, and clearing beds and leaves at both ends of the year. Then winter shows up in its southern-Illinois way, more ice than depth, and the same trucks go out to plow the drives and salt whatever the freeze glazed over. Two halves of one year, the same ground either way. The pleasure is a yard that looks looked-after in July and a driveway that is safe to walk in January.