By mid-October the parkway maples along Lombard's side streets let go all at once, and a lawn can vanish under them in a single weekend. Midwest Nursery Landscaping mows all season and then turns the machines to leaf work, clearing turf, beds and gutter lines before the rain welds everything down. Through summer it is the ordinary rhythm — cut, edge, trim, blow the walks clean, on to the next street. Grass that goes into winter short and clear comes out of it green a week earlier, which is the sort of payoff nobody sees and everybody enjoys. Lombard and the surrounding DuPage County towns keep the routes full.