By the middle of June the camp roads that thread down to China Lake's east basin are busy again, and the grass has been growing the whole time nobody was looking. Ace Home and Camp Care mows those lakeside lots and the year-round yards up on the ridge alike, cutting and trimming around dock posts and fire rings and edging the gravel turnarounds until a place looks glad to see its people. There is a particular pleasure in a lawn that runs clean all the way to the water with the light coming off the basin behind it. The rounds keep going through the warm months and into the fall cleanups, when the maples let go over China and the raking starts. It is steady work in a town that keeps one eye on the lake.