First light in Hayes Township comes up through mist sitting in the low ground, and every lawn is silver with dew until the sun clears the tree line. BMF Services starts there, because grass cut in that first cool hour holds its color all day. Properties out here run big and irregular — yard giving way to hayfield, a fence line to follow, a woodlot corner to turn around — so the mowing is as much about a good clean boundary as it is about the middle. Trimmer work tidies the posts and the mailbox; the blower takes the drive back to bare gravel. By mid-morning the dew is gone and the place looks like somebody lives there on purpose.