Spring reaches Watson through the bottoms first, the Little Wabash country greening up while the fields still lie bare and wait on the drill. Earthscapes Contracting starts its year there — cleanups that haul off everything winter left behind, beds cut back and mulched, the first mowings of grass that has been busy since March. Then the season settles into rhythm: weekly cutting, trimming, edging, and feeding as the heat comes on. Summers in this part of Illinois are honest work, humid and long. A well-kept yard out on a county road, sharp against all that open ground, is a small piece of order and well worth the trouble.