By July the ballfields near Marquette Park are cut short and the whole neighborhood smells like warm grass by nine in the morning. C & T Lawn Care runs its Wyoming routes in that heat, mowing, string-trimming and edging yards that grow hard through the humid West Michigan middle of summer. Turf under this kind of sun needs a little height left on it and a blade that is actually sharp, and both are matters of habit rather than luck. Walks and drives get blown down so the only thing left behind is the cut itself. Across the long season the work holds steady — same day, same care, a yard that stays even from the curb to the back fence.