Mason keeps its courthouse in the middle of the square, streets and shade trees arranged around it and Sycamore Creek slipping past the edge of town. BDC Property Care mows and maintains lawns across those blocks and out into the surrounding country — cutting on a schedule, trimming close to fences, posts and foundations, edging drives and walks until the border reads sharp. Ingham County summers push grass hard from May into August, and the schedule is what keeps a yard from ever getting away from itself. When the maples go over in October the work turns to leaves, cleared off the turf and out of the beds before a heavy rain can mat them down. A tended lawn on a square like that belongs to the whole street.