Late afternoon in Cassopolis, and the old oaks around Stone Lake throw long shade across village lawns while the mowers are still running. Mack Cut Lawn Service is out in that light — cutting, trimming tight to fence posts and mailboxes, blowing the clippings off so the walk looks as good as the grass does. Southwest Michigan hands out a generous growing season, and keeping level with it takes a steady weekly rhythm rather than heroics. There is something plainly good about a yard finished just as the sun drops behind the treeline. LaGrange Township, Cassopolis, Edwardsburg, Vandalia and the surrounding Cass County roads are all on the route.