The old rail grade through Clare is a trail now, and on a June evening the light runs straight down it between the trees. Mansell's All Electric Lawn Care keeps the yards on either side of town — mowing, trimming, edging and clearing the clippings of a fast Michigan growing season. Grass here goes from nothing to knee-high in about six weeks once the ground warms, and staying ahead of it is most of the job. What is left behind on a Friday is a lawn that looks intentional: even height, crisp borders, nothing shaggy at the fence line. A small thing, but it changes how a house sits on its lot.