From the ridge above the Flat River you can see how Belding sits: the dam, the old mill roofs, the streets running back uphill into shade. River Ridge Landscaping LLC works those slopes and flats alike, mowing to a consistent height, trimming the awkward ground near walls and banks, edging where lawn meets pavement. Evening is a good hour for it, when the light comes sideways through the maples and cut grass smells strongest. Sloped yards ask more of a mowing line, which makes a clean one that much better to look at. The work runs through Belding, Smyrna, Orleans and the neighboring Ionia County countryside.