Germantown Hills earns its name — the streets climb and drop across the bluffs east of the Illinois River, and a lawn here almost never lies flat. Arends Lawn Services mows those slopes and terraces right through the growing season, holding a clean line where turf meets driveway, walk and bed. On a June morning the dew burns off the high ground first while the river valley keeps its haze a while longer, and a hillside cut in even rows is a fine thing to look back at from the road. Trimming goes around mailbox posts, tree rings and stone, and the clippings come off the concrete before anyone tracks them inside. Week by week the work reaches from the village toward Metamora, Washington and Spring Bay.