After a cold clear night the crust out by Petoskey State Park catches the sunrise, and for about twenty minutes the whole shoreline throws off hard bright light. White Diamond LLC is usually finished by then — drives plowed, lots opened, walks shoveled clean before the first engine turns over. When the bay lets go in April, the same attention shifts to grass: mowing, trimming, edging, and the cleanups that carry a yard from thaw through to first frost. Winter here is long and the summer is generous, and a place only looks cared for if somebody handles both ends of it. Start to finish, that is the year.