Spring reaches North Muskegon by water first: Bear Lake lets go of its ice, the wind across the causeway turns soft, and the whole narrow peninsula greens up nearly overnight. Barry's Greenhouses and Landscaping works that ground between two lakes — mowing, edging and trimming, beds turned and planted through the growing months. Sandy soil and lake air ask for patience, and the reward is a yard that looks deliberate, grass cut to an even nap and a border line you could follow with your eye. There is real satisfaction in the last pass of the day, when low light comes off Muskegon Lake and every blade leans the same direction. That attention carries across North Muskegon and the shoreline neighborhoods around it.