May is short and loud around here — lilac at the fence lines on the older streets near downtown Farmington, and everything putting on an inch before you can get back to it. Lawnlifelandscapellc rides that surge with regular mowing, trimming close to porches and posts, edging walks that the turf has already tried to swallow, and hauling off the green weight of a spring week. Some blocks in Farmington Hills date back decades and some went in last year, and the grass behaves differently on each. Learning that, yard by yard, is what keeps a lawn even instead of merely cut. A street of properties holding their shape through the fastest month of the year is a good sight to leave behind.