The old houses on the bluff side of Ludington were built with deep porches and deeper lawns, the kind of ground that expects to be looked after. Cartier Landscaping tends that sort of yard — mowing and edging, beds shaped and mulched, shrubs kept in scale with the windows they sit beneath, and the cleanups that bracket a Michigan summer. On an August afternoon the shade under the street maples is the coolest place in the county, and a lawn that runs even and green right up under it is worth the trouble it takes. Fall is heavier going: leaves, cutbacks, plantings readied for a winter that arrives sideways. Landscaping and lawn care for Ludington and the townships nearby.