Late on a summer evening the oak ridges north of Ortonville throw long shadows across the yards below, and everything smells like warm grass and cooling ground. M&M Lawn and Landscaping LLC works Brandon Charter Township into that light — mowing, landscape bed work, borders cut so the mulch line stays where it was drawn. When the year turns, the trucks turn with it and the same driveways get plowed open and treated where the ice likes to gather. Snow is kept off the plantings so April finds them whole. There is a kind of pride in a property that looks intentional in every month of the year, and that is what the work is for.