Out toward Lake Lansing the land flattens and opens, and by late June the lawns there grow like they mean it. Augusta Lawn Care of Haslett keeps that stretch in order — mowing on a rhythm the grass can count on, trimming clean around fence posts and mailbox stems, edging the walks so the concrete shows its whole width again. Summer arrives humid off the water and keeps everything green well past what the calendar suggests, which makes the cutting season long and the schedule worth honoring. Come autumn the maples along Haslett Road let go all at once, and the work turns to leaves — hauled off, not just moved around. The reward is a yard that looks cared for from the road, which is the only place most people ever see it from.