In Alanson the Crooked River threads right through the middle of town, and the little swing bridge turns aside all summer for boats working the Inland Waterway. Rohrer's Lawncare LLC keeps the grass along that water — riverfront yards, village lots, the lawns that run down to a dock. Emmet County summers are short and bright, so mowing, trimming and edging happen at pace between the last frost and the first cold night of September. There is a particular pleasure in a cut lawn beside moving water: the green looks greener, and the edge along the seawall reads like a drawn line. Cleanups bracket the season at both ends.