September along the Rock is one of the gentler months in Illinois — the heat lets go, the sycamores start to turn, and the grass grows steadily instead of frantically. Kohls Cuts likes that stretch of the calendar, when a lawn holds its shape between visits and the mowing lines stay crisp for days. The work is mowing, trimming and edging, week after week from the first green through the last cut of the fall. What makes it worth doing is standing back at the end and seeing an even, well-bordered yard sitting quietly in that low autumn light. Prophetstown is a river town with tidy blocks and old shade trees. It deserves lawns to match.