August storms cross McHenry County fast — a green-gray sky over Marengo, twenty minutes of hard rain, then steam lifting off Grant Highway. V. Bolanos Landscaping works the day after, when the grass has jumped and everything needs cutting twice as badly as it did on Monday. Mowing heavy, rain-soaked turf without tearing it, trimming the corners, blowing the drive clean: the ordinary sequence, run carefully. By evening a yard is short and even and smelling like the entire summer at once. Some weeks that is exactly enough.