Apple Avenue runs east out of Muskegon into orchard country, and in August the heat sits still over the rows while the grass keeps right on growing. Larabee's Lawn Services stays ahead of it, mowing and trimming on a schedule that does not slip in the weeks when a lawn can put on an inch in three days. Edging cuts a clean seam along the walk; the trimmer takes what a deck can never reach, the mailbox post, the fence line, the base of the shade tree. Come October the cleanups begin, and those same yards get raked back down to green. Steady work, done the same way every time — that is what a lawn actually rewards.