Elsah sits in a hollow where the bluffs step down to the Mississippi, and on summer mornings the fog comes up the ravine before the sun clears the rim. Brass Lawn Services LLC works those narrow lots and stone-cottage yards where the ground tilts and every mowing line has to be chosen rather than assumed. There is real satisfaction in a stripe laid straight against a crooked old lane, and in edges cut so the walk reappears from under the grass. Trimming close along limestone walls, clearing the clippings back off the flagstone, then standing at the gate to see whether the whole yard reads as one piece. In a village this small, a tended yard is something the neighbors notice on their walk down to the river.