Midsummer on this stretch of McLean County prairie, the heat stands over the fields and shimmers, and mowing becomes early work by necessity. Jannin Lawn Service takes Randolph's yards in that first cool stretch of the day — deck set high for the heat, passes overlapped, trimmer run around every obstacle before the blower comes out. A drive edged clean and a walk swept bare is what turns a mowed lawn into a kept one. When the season turns the work turns with it: leaves off in fall, debris off in spring, the turf handed each way in good shape. Small town, wide sky, tidy yards — that is the whole ambition.