In Marine City the freighters come down the St. Clair so close you can hear the wash against the seawall, and the lawns along the water take their light from it — silver at dawn, gold by supper. Downriver Lawn & Landscape works those yards through the growing months, mowing and trimming until the edge along a walk is as clean as a chalk line. Come winter, that same river wind piles snow across driveways overnight, and the plow goes out early so a car can back out without a fight. There is a plain satisfaction in a property that looks handled: grass cut even, drive opened curb to curb, nothing left for the homeowner to do but leave the house. That is the whole ambition here, one address at a time, all the way down the river road.