Clawson lies flat — glacial ground, not a hill in the city to hide a crooked line. Morehouse Landscape Management, Inc. starts in April, when the turf is still matted from winter and every property in town wants the same four things at once: cleanup, cut, edge, mulch. From there it turns into management rather than mowing — a season laid out week by week, beds kept, turf fed, leaves taken off in fall before they can mat down again. Flat land is honest land; it shows you exactly what you did and exactly what you skipped. That is a fair bargain, and worth showing up for on a cold spring Monday.