Springvale Township greens up all at once, usually the third week of May — hayfields and yards and hardwood hills together, right about when everyone has waited long enough to doubt it. Good Steward Lawn Care, L.L.C. picks that week up and carries it to October: weekly mowing, trimming, edging, feeding and weed control, spring and fall cleanups, leaves off the lawn before the first real snow. The growing months here are few enough that none of them can be given away. An even, deep-green lawn in a county with a winter this long is worth every week it took. The work runs from the township roads into Petoskey and Alanson and back.