Mid-Michigan hands Essex Township more sky than most places get, and on a July morning you can watch the weather coming at you across the corn a full half hour before it arrives. Blue Sky Landscaping & Masonry works under all of it — mowing, trimming, edging and cleanup on farmhouse yards, village lots and the long approaches in between. Out here a lawn is the trimmed frame around a great deal of open country, so the edges are what matter: the line along the drive, the circle around the mailbox post, the strip by the road where the gravel always wants to creep in. Spring runs green and fast down near the Maple River bottoms, and the mowing schedule keeps up with it. Come autumn the fields go gold, the yards get raked out, and the whole township looks squared away.