The Lawn Specialist

About The Lawn Specialist

Storms build out of the southwest across the Kansas line and reach Joplin with a strange green light in them, and the morning after is the busiest kind of quiet. The Lawn Specialist works those mornings hardest — limbs and leaf litter lifted out of the turf, mowing once the ground firms up, edges redrawn along walks and drives, trimming brought back tight to the fences. Grass here runs hard through June and slows in the dry stretch of August, so the cutting height moves with it rather than staying put. What is left is a yard that looks composed from the street: even lines, a clean margin, the driveway blown off. Joplin, Duquesne and Airport Drive, from the first cut of the year to the last.