On a still morning the water off Petoskey lies flat as a held breath, and mist stands over the grass until the sun burns it off. Morning Tide Irrigation Services, Inc. works that same early hour — sprinklers stepped through zone by zone, heads leveled and aimed, run times trimmed to what the ground can actually drink. Summer is short here and can turn dry in a hurry, so irrigation becomes the difference between a lawn that carries its color and one that goes to straw inside a week. Mowing, trimming and edging round out the care, and come October the whole system is blown out and put away ahead of the freeze. Water in the right amount at the right hour, and the rest of the yard follows along.