August lies heavy on Cass County — the corn tall, the county roads shimmering, the lawns burning a little at the crowns. Thom's Lawn Care Pros works right through it, mowing high and clean, trimming out around mailboxes and posts and all the mower-shy corners nobody else gets to. The reward is that late-day look down a fresh-cut yard in Dowagiac: rows running to the road, the drive blown off, not a clipping left on the concrete. Come fall the same properties give up their leaves and get cleared back down to green. Steady work, on time, week after week.