US-10 runs straight through Scottville, and in winter so does the weather — bands off Lake Michigan that thicken over the Pere Marquette bottomland and land here as inches. Grimm's Snow Removal and Lawn Care, LLC works those mornings, plowing drives and lots and opening walks so a Mason County day can start on time. By May the same ground is green in a hurry, and the mowing, trimming and edging pick up again, week after week, out to the last leaf haul of November. There is a plain satisfaction in a driveway pushed clear while the streetlights are still on, and in a lawn cut evenly enough that the lines hold all the way from the road. Scottville is a small enough town to notice both.