The Rouge slips through Southfield quietly, a green seam of floodplain woods sitting just behind the subdivisions off Nine Mile, and in July the whole city smells like that — cut grass and river damp together. Msk Landscaping works those weeks hard, because one humid stretch will push a lawn past its limit in a matter of days. Weekly mowing keeps it in bounds; edging gives the driveway a true border; trimming finishes what the deck cannot reach along fence lines and around beds. Mulch goes down where the sun is fierce and the soil dries fast, on the west-facing strips between Evergreen and Twelve Mile. It is patient, physical work, and the proof of it is a street of yards that all look like someone is paying attention.