Above the water the cottage lanes run narrow under old maples, and half the doors along them open only from June to Labor Day. Next Door Lawn & Cottage Care looks after those yards the way a neighbor would — grass cut on schedule, trimming around porch steps and stone walls, leaves cleared when the lanes turn bronze. A cottage mowed and tidied before the car turns in is a welcome all by itself. In Bear Creek Township, where so much of the calendar is spent waiting on summer, that counts for something. The work is quiet and repeated, and it shows up in the plainest way: a place that looks like somebody was there.