There is a week in late April when Owosso goes from brown to green almost overnight, and the first mow of the year is the one everybody looks forward to. First Sprout Landscaping is out for it — decks set high, the winter's matted thatch combed out, edges opened back up along the walks and drives. Grass comes on fast here in a wet spring, on ground that used to be farmland and still behaves like it. So the season settles into a rhythm: mow, trim, blow off the concrete, return in a week and do it again while the days stretch toward that long mid-June light. A lawn kept honestly all summer is one of the quieter pleasures of a small Michigan town.