Come late October the soybean stubble around Mascoutah turns bronze and the days shut down early, which is exactly when a yard needs the last careful pass of the year. Lawnscape Outdoor Services makes it — final mows, trimming, edging, leaves cleared and hauled, lawns put to bed. Two months later those same properties need a different tool, and the trucks head back out with plows and salt to open driveways, lots and walkways before daybreak. Watching a storm's worth of snow come off a drive in clean rows is worth getting up for on a black winter morning. It is the same properties all year, just a different machine on the back of the truck.