Four in the morning in February, and the streetlights are the only warm color anywhere in Flushing. A Little Off The Top Lawn & Snow LLC is already out, pushing driveways back to bare pavement and opening the walks so nobody has to guess where the step is. By the time coffee is on, the plow has done its arguing with the drift at the end of the drive. In May the same hands trade steel for a mower deck, and the name gets earned again every week: cut, trim, edge, clear the clippings, go. Both halves of the Michigan year get the same early start, across Flushing and the townships nearby.