By the second week of July the heat settles over Mount Clemens and stays, cicadas going in the elms, the air not moving much until evening. Mike's Mowing & More, LLC works through it — mowing, string trimming the fence lines and tree rings, edging the drive so the concrete has a clean margin again. There is something worth being proud of in a lawn cut at the right height in high summer: it holds its color, it feels cool underfoot at dusk, it makes a backyard somewhere a person actually wants to sit. Spring and fall bring the bigger jobs, the cleanups that reset a yard at either end of the growing season. Mount Clemens, Clinton Township, Fraser and Roseville are on the weekly list.