Grand River Avenue carries Wixom's daylight traffic, and the properties along it show every season plainly. Cut-n-Care, Inc. mows, trims and edges through the green months, keeping turf tidy while summer storms push in from the west and add a week's growth overnight. Come winter the same addresses get plowed and salted, walks cleared to the door, lots opened before the lights go on inside. The switch from one to the other happens fast in Michigan — a November of leaf cleanup and then, some Tuesday, plow trucks. Both jobs end the same way, with a property that looks cared for from the road.