Toward LaSalle the farms still run in long narrow ribbons down to the lake, the field lines the earliest settlers here laid out, with Otter Creek threading through them the way it always has. VanBert's Lawn Care LLC keeps lawns in that country — mowing on schedule, trimming close to posts and foundations, edging the drives back to a tidy margin. Open ground, lake wind and heavy Monroe County soil all have opinions about turf, and steady cutting settles most of them. A yard mowed at the right height and the right interval simply looks better and holds up better. That is the craft of it, and it is plenty.