Old Route 66 goes by Mount Olive, and the town still keeps the shape the coal years gave it — tight lots, long alleys, big shade trees standing over the streets. Perennial Care & Maintenance looks after that grass through the Macoupin County summer: mowing on a regular turn, trimming close to fence and stone and step, edging drives, clearing whatever the mower throws. July storms cross this prairie fast and leave the yards a mess, and part of the job is simply putting them back together. In the fall it's leaves, and plenty of them, hauled off before they mat down. A cut lawn on a quiet street is a modest thing to take pride in, and it earns it anyway.