Fog sits low over Hidden Lake through most of the shoulder seasons, and it burns off just about the time the day's first mower starts up somewhere across the road. Bear Landscape Group keeps to that rhythm all year in Lisle, mowing, edging and running cleanups while the ground is soft, then plowing, shoveling and salting once it isn't. Winter arrives here on a west wind with nothing to slow it, and a driveway can go from wet to sheet ice inside an hour. Being early is the entire trade. The result stays plain and good: a clear apron, a swept walk, and in July a lawn holding a straight line all the way to the curb.