Florence keeps close to the Illinois River, tucked under Pike County bluffs where the water runs wide and slow and the bottomland timber holds the mist late into the morning. Orlando Lawn Service, Inc. mows the yards along that shoreline and the roads back up the hill — weekly cutting, trimming around trees and posts, edges cut clean, cleanups in spring and again after the leaves come down. River air keeps a lawn growing hard through July, and it grows everything else too, so trimming is half the job. In fall the bluffs turn and the light off the water goes copper by late afternoon. A yard finished at that hour, striped and swept, is a fine thing to drive past.