The old canal still draws its straight green line through the Illinois Valley, and Bluegrass Landscaping LLC keeps a year that runs just as plainly in two directions. Warm months are mowing and trimming, edges cut sharp along drives, planting beds kept clean and clippings hauled off. Cold months turn the same trucks toward plowing — driveways opened, walks shoveled, salt down on the slick spots where wind funnels between houses. Peru takes its snow sideways off the open ground north of town, and a drive cleared before the coffee is done is worth more here than any speech about it. Same crew, same care, whichever way the thermometer is pointing.