The Pine River bends through St. Louis, slow and brown in August, loud with runoff every spring. River City Landscaping LLC keeps the lawns above those banks — mowing, trimming, edging and seasonal cleanup for homes and properties around town. River ground grows thick and grows quickly, particularly after a wet week, and it rewards a mower that arrives when it said it would. There is real satisfaction in the last pass along a slope: clippings cleared, grass laid all one direction toward the water. St. Louis and the Gratiot County towns beside it are all on the map.