There is one mow every October that is the last one, and the oaks east of Machesney Park have already told you it is coming. M+J Mowing Service LLC finishes those late cuts low and even, then works the leaf drop off the turf and out of the bed corners so the grass goes into winter with room to breathe. Through the warm months it is the same steady service — mowing, trimming, edging, walks cleared of clippings — held to the same standard in July heat as in a cool wet May. Yards in this village sit flat and open, which makes the stripe lines carry all the way across. Watching a lawn come out clean at the end of a long afternoon is reason enough to be in this work.