A good cut is mostly a matter of lines. On Center Avenue, where the tall old houses stand shoulder to shoulder behind their deep front lawns, Lawn Barbers LLC works the morning in long parallel passes and then comes back along the sidewalk with the trimmer until the grass ends in one clean seam. Bay City summers are humid and generous, and a yard here can put on half an inch overnight, so mowing is a standing appointment rather than a favor. When the year turns and those same sidewalks vanish under a night of wind off the water, the plow and the shovel take over and the lines come back: pavement to the edge, curb to curb. It is the same job either way, giving the ground its shape back.