First light in Marengo Township comes up over stubble and a long line of oaks, and the dew is heavy enough to soak a boot to the ankle. Larder Lawn Care starts the day there, mowing, edging and trimming the township's gravel-drive homes and roadside acres straight through the Michigan growing season. October is its own kind of busy — the oaks let go all at once and fall cleanup becomes the whole job, while spring cleanup runs the same work in reverse. Grass here comes on thick in June and slows in the dry weeks, so the schedule follows the lawn rather than the calendar. By evening the mower cools and a yard sits squared away, which is the point of all of it.