Mulberry Grove is a handful of streets set in the Bond County farm ground, close enough to the interstate to hear it and far enough out that the evenings stay quiet. J and J Lawn care keeps the village lawns on a weekly cut — mowing, trimming around trees and posts, edging along walks and drives, clearing the clippings off the pavement. Grass in this part of Illinois takes a June rain personally and grows accordingly. Spring and fall bring the heavier work: beds cleared, yards raked, leaves carried off before winter arrives. It doesn't take much to make a small-town yard look right; it takes showing up when you said you would.