Gabe's Greenworks & landscaping

About Gabe's Greenworks & landscaping

On June mornings the haze comes off Lake Storey low and white, and it hangs over the north edge of Galesburg until the sun burns it away around eight. Gabe's Greenworks & landscaping is usually already out by then, mowing the first lawns of the day while the blades are still wet enough to cut clean. The work is steady and unglamorous — cutting, trimming, edging the beds and borders, hauling off the clippings and the fallen leaves when the season turns. What makes it worth doing is the moment of stepping back: a lawn with its lines running true, its edges drawn, its corners squared to the drive. Around a lake town the green shows up bright against the water, and that is a good enough reason to keep it right.