The first cut of the year in Anna lands on some warm week in April, when the lawns have gone shaggy and the whole village smells green again by supper. Dicke's Lawn Service starts there and keeps going to the last cool cut of fall — mowing, trimming and edging for houses in town and places strung along the county roads. Between the interstate hum west of the village and the beanfields east of it, the yards here sit under a lot of weather and take everything it hands them. Steady mowing keeps a lawn dense and dark; skipped weeks show for a month afterward. So the calendar gets kept, and the grass stays where it belongs.