The Rock River runs straight through the middle of town, silver maples leaning out over the banks and the bluffs holding the west side up above the water. Riverwood Outdoor Services, LLC works both halves of the year on the properties around it — mowing, trimming and cleanups through the growing months, then plowing and clearing walks once the river starts to freeze at the edges. A summer evening here smells like cut grass and warm pavement; a January one smells like nothing at all, just cold. Different work, the same care underneath it: a yard somebody is glad to pull up to. Rockford and its river towns keep the calendar full end to end.