Morning comes off Little Traverse Bay in one wide sheet of blue, and by the time it reaches the yards of Bear Creek Township the dew is still bright on every blade. A & B Lawn Care works those hours — mowing, trimming, edging, the slow careful pass around a flowerbed that nobody notices until it's done wrong. The reward is a lawn that looks combed, striped clean to the property line, holding its shape until the next cut. Summer in Emmet County is short and generous, and it deserves grass worth crossing barefoot. From the first green flush of May to the last leaf haul of October, this is steady, unhurried work in one township's yards.