Wind is the constant in Brown City — it crosses the Thumb's open farmland with nothing to break it, bending the corn and drying the roadsides by noon. Padilla's Lawn Care & Landscape LLC. mows into it week after week, holding stripes true down the long village lots and out along the county roads. Trimming tightens the work around fence posts, foundations and elevator-side lots; edging gives every drive a hard, finished line. Cleanups clear what the wind piles against hedges and porches at either end of the season. Brown City, Yale, Marlette and the surrounding Sanilac and Lapeer County towns.