July in Lapeer County can go two weeks without a real rain, and from the road you can tell a watered lawn from a hopeful one. Creative Irrigation Inc works the early hours, when the pressure is up and the wind is down, laying out zones, tuning heads and getting water onto roots instead of driveways. Out toward Lake Nepessing the sandy ground drinks fast, while in town the clay wants a slow soak, and a system has to know which one it is talking to. Lawn care follows the same logic, since green starts underground and only shows up later. A yard still deep and even in the third week of a dry spell is the entire argument.