Superior Street in Alma carries a Scottish streak, and the town wears its tartan in May and its snowbanks in January. Green Side Up works both ends of that calendar — mowing, edging and cleanups once the ground thaws, plowing and salting drives and walks when it does not. Sod goes green side up, as the saying has it, and the same plain logic runs through the rest of the work: do it the right way around and it holds. Winter here comes flat and open across the fields, drifting onto driveways faster than it falls. Summer or storm, the yard gets left better than it was found.