The first mow of the year in Santa Anna Township sounds like the season actually starting — one engine at a time, up and down the block, the smell of cut grass carrying out over the section line. Trojan Landscaping keeps that rhythm going from thaw to the last warm week with mowing, string trimming, edging, and hauling the clippings off so nothing mats down in the rain. Salt Creek slides southwest through the township with a little timber along it, and the red-winged blackbirds on the ditch fences complain about every pass. By July the lawns want cutting on a shorter leash, and the evenings stay light long enough to finish clean. Then the leaves come down all at once, and a fall cleanup makes a yard look twice its size.