By a June afternoon the shade around the Edgar County courthouse square has gone thin and the rest of Paris is all brightness. That's when CashN'Grass LawnCare is out behind the mower, laying even passes across front yards while the heat stands still over the sidewalks. Trimming comes after — along the walk, around the mailbox post, tight to the porch skirt — and then the clippings get blown off the concrete so the edge reads clean from the street. A yard finished that way still looks tended at dusk, when the light runs long and low off the prairie. Mowing, trimming and edging for Paris and the towns just out the highway.