South of town the soil turns sandy and the jack pines throw long thin shadows across the lawns out toward Michaywé, which means grass up here has to be coaxed rather than commanded. Ando property services mows on that understanding — cutting high through the July heat, trimming clean around pine roots and mailbox posts, clearing away the clippings and the needles that drift down all summer. Northern Michigan gives its green in one short bright rush between late May and September, and the work is to make every week of it count. By evening a yard smells like cut grass and warm pine, and the lines run straight to the tree line. The season gets opened in May and closed out in October.