Green comes late and hard to Marquette Township — the ground stays cold under Lake Superior's breath until the birches finally break bud and the whole ridge above US-41 turns at once. BANKS LAWN CARE SERVICE makes the most of that short brilliant season, mowing, edging and trimming yards cut out of iron-country woods. Days run long this far north, light still on the big lake past ten, and the grass grows fast enough to use every hour of it. Spring cleanup clears a winter's worth of sand and branch litter; fall cleanup gets the leaves up before the first serious snow arrives. A tight-mown lawn ringed with pine and birch is a fine thing to look at in a place that only gets a few months of it.