By mid-July the corn beyond the village edge is taller than a person and the black soil under Westville's yards is pushing grass just as hard. Nelson's Lawn Care keeps up with it week by week — mowing at an even height, trimming the fence corners and the mailbox posts, running an edge along the walks so the lines stay honest against all that growth. Clippings come off the concrete before the truck leaves. On the long summer evenings, when the light stretches all the way down a straight prairie street, a row of kept lawns looks like something the whole block did together. That is the point of the work, really.