East of town the Manistee River runs wide and unhurried, and the mornings along it come up green and heavy with dew. That is the hour Aj's Trees N Services likes best — grass still cool, the mower laying its first clean line across the yard. All through the long Michigan summer the work holds a steady shape: mow, trim the fence corners, edge where the lawn meets the drive. Spring cleanups clear whatever the thaw left behind, and fall cleanups chase the maple leaves down to the curb. What stays is a yard that reads as cared for from the road, right out to the last corner.