Jons Lawns

About Jons Lawns

Morning on the Ohio starts as fog, settling over the Wurtland bottoms and burning off slow, so the grass stays wet till the sun clears the hills. Jons Lawns times the week around that — waiting for the blades to dry so the cut comes off even instead of clumped, then moving between the flat river lots and the yards that climb toward the rise behind town. Spring runs fast here: the ground warms, the Little Sandy comes up brown where it meets the Ohio just upriver at Greenup, and lawns want cutting before the winter tools are fully put away. A pass with the mower, a line trimmed around porch posts and fence corners, clippings swept clear of the walk — small attentions that add up to a house looking settled. By evening, with a barge pushing past and the light gone flat gold on the water, the whole row of yards along the road stands neat.