Gaines is a crossroads with grain country all around it — elevator, rail line, and streets that fill with the smell of cut grass every Saturday from May to September. Lichon Services LLC works both faces of the year here: mowing, trimming and edging through the warm months with cleanups in spring and fall, then snow plowing, drive and lot clearing, and shoveled walks once the fields go white and the wind gets up. Winter on flat land means drifting, and drifting means heading back out. Summer means staying ahead of grass that grows overnight after every storm. Either way it is the same set of driveways, and the same pleasure in leaving them right.