Out toward Horseshoe Lake the lots open up, the sycamores grow old and wide, and a single yard can take a real morning to finish. Bigfoot Landscaping Co takes the big ones, mowing lawns closer to acreage than to front yards, trimming around trunks and posts, and edging the long drives that run back from the road. In October the leaves come down in sheets off the cottonwoods and the work turns to cleanup, hauling the season off the grass before it mats down. There is a satisfaction in standing back at the road afterward and seeing an entire property read as one clean sweep of green. Granite City and the townships around it have plenty of ground like that.