In September the low ground along the Battle Creek River holds fog until the sun burns through it, and the first lawns of the day come up wet and silver. Blue Bull Lawn Care starts in that hour, mowing and trimming while the dew still darkens the tire tracks behind the machine. By mid-morning the fog has lifted off the stubble fields and the finished yards sit bright green against all that harvest brown. Edges get cut sharp where turf meets concrete, because that line is the part a person actually notices from the road. Charlotte and the country around it — Olivet, Bellevue, Springport — one route, start to finish.