Milan's parking lots — the school's, the church's, the little strip by the corner — are the first places anyone notices after a storm. McIntosh Grounds Maintenance, Inc. is out ahead of a Sunday morning, plowing those lots wide open and clearing the walks so people can get from the car to the door without a thought. In the growing months the same properties get mowed on a schedule, trimmed around every sign post and light base, edged along the curb lines. Big open turf rewards patience: cut it evenly and it reads as one green sheet from the road. That steadiness is the whole service, storm to storm and week to week.