Michigan winters don't stay cold; they thaw on a Tuesday and lock up hard by Tuesday night, and every driveway along the Huron valley turns to a single sheet. Conklin Landscaping runs plows and salt on that schedule, out along Dexter Road and the river-bend streets where meltwater always finds the same low spot. When April finally sticks, the trucks change over and the mowing season opens: weekly cuts, trimmed fence lines, edges laid in clean, beds cleared of everything winter left behind. A property watched all the way around the year tells you things — where the water sits, which side the sun reaches first. That is the real advantage of doing both halves of the calendar on the same ground.