Around Sugar Springs the lakes freeze hard and the roads between them narrow with every storm that comes down out of the north. Sugar Springs Maintenance keeps them passable, plowing drives, clearing walks, and opening the way from a garage door to a plowed county road. When the ice goes out and the water turns blue again, the work shifts to mowing, trimming and edging the yards that ring those lakes. There is a real difference between a property that has been kept and one that has been left, and it announces itself from the water as much as from the street. Year round in this corner of Gladwin County, the aim stays the same: a place that looks looked-after.