From the ridge roads southeast of Murphysboro you can pick out Bald Knob Cross standing pale above the treeline, and in April the whole slope beneath it turns pink and green at once. MH Landscaping opens its season about then, with the first mow, the first true edge, beds cleaned out and the grass fed while the ground is still soft and willing. Summer settles into a steady rhythm of cutting, trimming and holding the weeds back, week after week in that heavy heat. By November the work is leaves, cleared off the lawn before the yard goes under for the winter. Grass kept this way never shouts; it just looks like somebody has been paying attention.