On cool mornings the Rock River lays a low fog over Prophetstown, and the town emerges from it slowly — rooftops first, then the sycamores, then the streets. Carson's Clean Cuts Lawn Care is often already moving in that half-light, mowing and edging the river-bottom lawns that grow thick in the damp valley soil. When the season turns, the same fog becomes frost and then snow, and the work turns to plowing drives, clearing walks and putting salt down where the ice sets up hard. There is a plain pride in a lawn cut in clean parallel lines and, months later, in the same driveway scraped down to pavement. Whiteside County gives you two very different jobs and one steady purpose. Keep the ground in front of people's doors in good order.