North of Oquawka the ground turns sandy and the pines of the Big River country stand in long ranks, and that same light soil runs under half the yards in town. Grass grown on it wants a steady hand in July, when the cicadas start up and the afternoons go heavy and slow. Oquawka Qubicle Design and Print takes on the mowing, trimming and edging that keep a lawn looking deliberate rather than merely cut. The pleasure of it lives in the finish work — the clean line where turf meets walk, the strip along the fence nobody else bothers with. Come evening, when the heat lets go and the light turns long and gold, a yard done right is one of the better things to look at in this town.