On the coldest mornings the St. Clair River smokes — a low white breath rising off water still moving under a hard sky, ice pans turning slowly downstream past town. Kevin's Lawn Care & Snow Removal Inc. is already out in that air, plowing driveways, shoveling walks and spreading salt so the first cup of coffee in St. Clair happens behind a clear front step. By April the blades come off, the mowers go on, and the town's lawns wake up fast in the damp river air. Weekly cutting, trimming, edging, feeding, cleanups in spring and again when the leaves come down — the whole green half of the calendar. It's a small city with big weather on either side of summer, and somebody has to meet it both times.