August thunderheads build in the west over Hope Township, and you can watch them come for an hour across the fields before the first drop lands. HOWDEN'S LANDSCAPING works between those storms — mowing on the dry days, trimming along fence lines and foundations, edging drives and walks so the shape of the yard is plain, and cleaning up in spring and again once the leaves come down. Midland County growing weather is generous and uneven; a week of rain puts on more grass than the whole of a dry July. Keeping a lawn cut right through all of that is a matter of timing, and the payoff is a yard that looks even from the road in any week of the summer.