Late August in southern Michigan turns the roadsides tan and the lawns stubborn, and getting from one job to the next means miles of gravel between Hanover, Horton and Concord. Greater Southern Michigan Lawn Care covers that spread — cutting grass, trimming fencelines and clearing leaves for houses set a long way apart from one another. Distance is part of the craft out here, and so is arriving on the day you said you would. A lawn on a township road may be seen only by the people who live there and the mail carrier, and it still deserves a straight line. By September the mowing eases off, the leaves begin, and the whole rhythm drops a beat.