Up here in June the light hangs on until nearly ten, and a lawn cut in that last hour holds the smell of it. Robert's lawn service works the northern growing season for everything it is worth — mowing on rotation, trimming around trees and posts, edging where grass meets gravel. The soil around Kalkaska is sandy and fast-draining, so a yard can be thick one week and thirsty the next; the cut height changes with it. Spring cleanup pulls winter's litter off the turf, and the fall pass puts it to bed under the pines. Yards kept in shape for households and small businesses in and around the village.