Houghton Lake is a wide, shallow, weather-catching sheet of water, and in summer the whole shoreline fills with people who drove a long way to get there. Houghton Lake Lawn & Landscaping LLC keeps those lots trim through the season, mowing, edging, trimming around decks and dock steps, and clearing beds so the cottages look ready. The lake breeze keeps the afternoons workable even in August, and grass along the water grows in fits and starts depending on shade and sand. Spring brings the big opening cleanup, all the branches and matted leaves the winter piled up. By the time Labor Day traffic thins out, the lawns still look the way they did in June.