High summer in west-central Illinois is a green, humid business — the corn is head-high, the roadsides run to grass, and a lawn can get away from you in ten days. Top Notch Outdoors LLC keeps ahead of it with a mowing rotation that does not slip, edges cut along walks and drives, and trimming around the trees so nothing looks half-finished. On the higher ground toward Abingdon and out past Lake Storey, the mornings often bring a breeze that dries things off early and makes for good cutting. Fall brings the cleanups, and there is honest pleasure in a lawn combed bare and ready for the freeze. Come the first warm week the whole thing begins again, and the yards look the better for it.