On an August evening the light comes off Lake Fenton at a low angle and every lawn on the ride home looks greener than it did at noon. Carlson Outdoor Services puts them in that condition on purpose — mowing to a rhythm, trimming fence lines and mailbox posts, edging where turf wants to creep over the drive. Summer here is generous: warm rain overnight, an inch of growth by Thursday, machines out again on Friday. Winter asks for the opposite temperament, the heavy wet snow that falls through the small hours and has to be pushed, shoveled and salted before anybody backs out. Both halves end the same way, with a property somebody is glad to pull into.