There is an hour before Midland wakes when the last star still hangs over the west-side woods and the air hasn't decided to be hot yet. Morningstar Lawn Care starts there — mowers off the trailer, the first cut of the day laid down clean while the dew is still on the blades. The route runs the neighborhoods all week: trimming, edging, walks blown off, the gate latched on the way out. Spring and fall are the heavy lifts, clearing what winter left behind and then what the maples send down. Finish a lawn at sunrise and it holds that look all day long.