Buckeye Township is Gladwin County at its most unhurried, jack pine and hardwood giving way to farm openings, the Cedar River sliding along somewhere behind the trees. L&B Outdoor Services keeps the lawns of that country in order through the short, generous northern summer: mowing, string trimming, edging, and the spring and fall cleanups that frame the growing season. Up here the season arrives late and leaves early, so every week of green counts and none of them get skipped. There is real satisfaction in a two-track yard turned crisp at its edges, with the pine duff swept off the walk. When the last leaves come down in October, those get cleared too, and the yard is handed over to winter looking tidy.