In October the Grand River runs the color of steeped tea toward the channel, and the cottonwoods along the bank let go all at once. Dykstra Landscape Management Inc looks after grounds here the year through — mowing, trimming and landscape maintenance while things grow, snow removal once the lakeshore turns white and stays that way. Fall is when the two jobs overlap: leaves off the turf one week, blades mounted the next, and the first squall usually arriving ahead of schedule. Grounds that get steady attention show it in the margins — a straight cut line, a lot plowed corner to corner. Grand Haven weather is not gentle, and neither is the standard it sets.