Every summer the balloons lift off the field at W.K. Kellogg Airport and hang over the whole city for a few mornings, and from up there Battle Creek is mostly a quilt of yards. MT's Lawn Maintenance LLC keeps a fair number of those squares looking like squares — weekly mowing, trimming around the edges, a defined line where lawn gives way to drive. The route runs the same days each week, which is how a lawn stays ahead of itself instead of being chased all season. Spring cleanup gets the winter out of the grass; fall cleanup gets the leaves off before they mat down over it. Nothing dramatic about any of it — just a yard that's handled.