The soil around Rochelle is black to the depth of a shovel, and it grows everything eagerly — seed corn out in the section fields, and grass in town that will not quit from May to September. Groundworks Lawn Maintenance keeps up with that eagerness: mowing on a set rotation, trimming along fences, foundations and mailbox posts, edging so the lawn stops where it is supposed to, and clearing the walks and drive of every clipping. Midsummer here is heat and thunder and then more heat, and a yard left two weeks turns coarse and uneven. Kept on schedule it does the opposite — thickens, evens out, holds its color into fall. That is the aim on every Ogle County lawn on the list.