On the east side of Sterling, where the streets run out toward the Dixon road and the yards get a little deeper, the best hour is the one just before supper. Low sun catches every mow line and makes a plain lawn look like something done on purpose. Green and Clean Lawn Services East does that work — mowing, trimming around posts and beds, blowing the walks clean so nothing gets tracked inside. Grass runs hard here in June and slows to almost nothing by late August, and much of the job is reading which week is which. A lawn that looks even, week after week, is not luck; it is somebody showing up.