Port Byron sits up on the bank with the Mississippi running wide and brown below it, and the streets climb away from the water in short, steep steps. Ams mowing and property management mows the yards on those hills, where a level cut takes more care than it does on flat ground, and trims out the corners the mower cannot reach. Spring here opens with high water and a lot of rain, and the grass answers by growing all at once. The satisfaction is in taming it — one height across a sloping lawn, a trimmed line along the walk, the whole property looking settled again. From the top of town you can see the river doing exactly what it always does.