Light lasts until almost ten o'clock here in late June, and the last mowing of the day happens with the sun low over Boardman Lake. E² Outdoor Services LLC keeps lawns through the short northern Michigan growing season — mowing on a rhythm, trimming close to fence lines and foundations, edging the walks, clearing leaves when the season turns. Sandy soil and a brief summer mean grass up here grows in earnest bursts and has to be met on its own schedule. A yard finished right has a sharp border and nothing left on the sidewalk, and that detail is the entire point. Traverse City summers are short; the lawns ought to look like someone paid attention to every week of them.