April in Traverse City is a mess in the best way — flattened brown grass, meltwater running for the storm drains, and the first birds working the hedgerows. Finch's Outdoor & More meets that turn from both directions: raking out what winter left behind, mowing and trimming all summer, then back to the plow and the shovel when the cold returns. The changeover weeks are the honest ones, when a yard goes from grey to green in about ten days if somebody tends it. Winter asks the opposite discipline — open the drive, salt the walk, do it again tomorrow. Same yards, same people, the whole way around the calendar.