A village the size of Watson keeps its landmarks close — a ball field, a steeple, a grain elevator, and past those, corn running clear to the horizon. Watson Lawn Care tends the yards in among them: weekly mowing through the growing months, trimming and edging so the lines stay clean, fertilizing and weed control, and the raking-up when October arrives in earnest. Saturday mornings are busy and cool, the air smelling of leaf litter and of diesel from the highway out toward Effingham. Grass grows fast here in a wet June and needs watching in a dry August, and either way somebody has to show up. That showing up is most of it.