Spring rain comes through Menard County in long grey sheets, and afterward Greenview smells like cut grass and wet earth for a week. Stauffer Lawn Services works that surge, when the yards along the village streets grow faster than anyone can quite keep up with. Mowing on schedule, trimming tight to trees and posts, edging the sidewalks, and clearing the yard down when fall arrives — that is the shape of the year. There is real pleasure in taking a shaggy lawn and handing it back level and striped, every walk edge crisp again. Salt Creek country greens up hard, and it takes steady work to answer it.