Morning comes to Mahomet off the Sangamon, a low seam of river fog lying in the bottomland until the sun burns it loose. Blade Runners Lawn Service Inc. is out in that first clear hour, when dew still weighs the grass down and a mowing line shows up sharp behind the deck. Lawn care in a river town is a conversation with two kinds of ground — soft near the water, quick-drying up on the flat — and the cut height answers to both. The crew stays with a yard until the trimmed margin along the drive looks drawn rather than chopped, and the walk is blown clean before the trailer gate goes up. By evening a Mahomet lawn should look like somebody paid attention to it. That is the entire point of the day.