Summer evenings in Thornapple Township run long and gold, and the sound carrying over the fields at seven o'clock is usually somebody finishing one last yard. Tyler's lawn care runs a route like that — mowing, string trimming and cleanups through the growing season, then plowing and walkway clearing once the year flips over. Small operations get to care about small things: the trimmed line around a mailbox post, the driveway blown clean of clippings before the truck pulls away. Come January the same attention shows up as a clear path to the front door at six in the morning. It is visible work in a township the size where people notice.