Southwest Michigan takes its weather from the lake and its living from the fruit — vineyard and blueberry rows laid out in the sandy loam around Decatur, the Dowagiac River winding off through the lowland. Driscoll Lawn Care runs the full year here: mowing, trimming and edging from the first warm week into October, then plowing and shoveling when the lake-effect bands set up and load the village overnight. There is a stretch in November when both trucks are loaded, mower on one and blade on the other, because Michigan cannot make up its mind. Clean cut, clean edge, clean drive — the results are the same kind of thing in either half of the year. Decatur and the nearby Van Buren County towns are the range.