By mid-afternoon in July the sky west of Lamard starts to build, a white tower standing over the fields, and anybody with a mower learns to read it. Erik's Landscaping and Trees, LLC works around that weather — cutting between rains, catching lawns that shot up three inches overnight, trimming in close along foundations and downspouts, running an edge down the sidewalk. The reward comes in the hour after, when the storm has moved off east and the grass smells sweet and the yard looks tended. They clear the clippings off the drive so nothing tracks inside. Little thing. It's the part people notice.