US-23 hums past Fenton Township before dawn, and the trucks heading out to yards are usually on the road ahead of the commuters. Fenton Lawn Maintenance runs a mowing route through the warm months — cut, trim, edge, blow the walks — and a plow route once the pavement goes white. There is a particular pride in a driveway opened before the household wakes: no shoveling, no wheel spin, just the day starting on time. In summer the equivalent is the yard someone comes home to, striped and squared and smelling like cut grass. Between the two, the whole year is accounted for.