Almira Township wraps around Lake Ann, and the ground here is sand and pine and cold spring water — the Platte gets started nearby before it heads off toward Lake Michigan. Summer comes late and then all at once, and the grass makes up for lost time between the cottages and the year-round places. Redmonds Outdoor Services works that short green stretch: mowing, trimming, edging, brush and leaves cleared, the drive blown off at the end. There is a particular pleasure in a lawn cut at the edge of the woods, where the mown line meets the ferns and simply stops. By October the light on the lake goes copper at five o'clock, and the last cleanups run out ahead of the first Benzie County snow.