The Illinois River lays a long ribbon of fog through the valley most mornings, and Peru wakes above it on the bluff. River Valley Lawn Care keeps the year on both sides of that view: mowing, trimming and edging through the green months, with trimmings blown off the walks and lines held straight along every drive. When the valley locks up in January the work shifts to plowing, shoveling and de-icing, opening drives and paths before the first car needs to move. Grass grows fast off this bottomland humidity and snow drifts hard off the open fields — both ask the same thing, which is showing up on time. Steady hands, week after week, in the town this valley made.