Morning comes early to Lamard, and it comes wide — light spilling flat across open ground before it ever finds a rooftop. Black Amigo Lawn Care is out in it, mowing while the dew still weighs the blades down and the air is cool enough to work in. Grass grows hard through a long prairie summer, and staying even with it takes a steady week. What they're after is a yard that has clearly been paid attention to: stripes laid straight, the mailbox post and fence line trimmed, an edge run along the drive, the walk blown clean before they pull out. By evening, when the sun goes down the length of a county road, the lawn still holds its lines.