The Shiawassee gathers itself in this corner of Livingston County out of low ground and cold springs, and when it runs high in April the mowing season is not far behind. Huttons lawn and landscape takes Oceola Township lawns from that first hesitant green-up through the deep growth of June and on to the leaf-heavy end of October. Mowing, trimming, edging, cleanups — plain words for work that decides how a house looks every single day of the warm half of the year. There is a particular pleasure in the first cut of the year, when a yard goes from shaggy to shaped in one afternoon and the smell carries down the whole road. After that it is rhythm: come back, keep it even, leave the edges crisp.