In the precinct east of Petersburg the houses sit back from the road behind old windbreaks, and their yards run wide and sunlit until four in the afternoon lays long shade across them. Big branch lawn care and tree maintenance keeps those yards — mowing the open ground on a regular turn, trimming close around trunks, posts, foundations and the awkward corners a deck creates, edging the drive so the gravel stops where it should. Clippings get cleaned up instead of left in windrows. Prairie-country grass runs green and fast in June, then slows and stiffens by late July, and the cut changes with it. A farmstead yard mown right is a quiet welcome to anyone coming up the lane.