Lake Michigan Drive carries you west out of Grand Rapids and the city thins into open township well before you reach Allendale. Grand Rapids Reliable Lawn Service makes that run with the mowers still cool and the dew not yet lifted, cutting, trimming and edging its way through the morning. By the time the trucks turn back the yards are striped and the walks are swept bare. In winter the same stretch of M-45 becomes a corridor of blowing snow, and the plows go out to open driveways and clear a salted path to the door. Same road, different work — and either way somebody in Allendale steps outside into a place that is ready for them.