By the Fourth of July the corn stands shoulder-high right up against the last row of backyards in Taylorville, and the afternoons stretch so long they seem to forget how to end. Kkamp & Sons Mowing Services fills them with the steady back-and-forth of the season: mowing across the growing weeks, trimming what the deck can't reach, edging along walks and drives, and clearing the debris spring and fall leave in the corners of a yard. Heat lightning flickers on the south horizon most of those evenings without ever amounting to much, and the grass keeps coming either way. A lawn cut in even passes with its borders held sharp is the sort of thing people notice without quite knowing why. That's the aim, one property at a time.