August in Grand Rapids can turn a lawn straw-colored in ten days without rain, and the yards around Garfield Park show it before anywhere else. Jake's Quality Lawn Care mows high through that stretch, leaving the blades long enough to shade their own roots, and keeps the trimming and edging sharp so a thirsty lawn still reads as a kept one. When the rain finds its way back in September the color returns fast and the mowing goes back on its weekly turn. Cleanups bookend the year at either end. It is unglamorous work, and it is the whole reason a street feels looked after.