Michigan Avenue has been carrying travelers through Ypsilanti since it was a plank road, and the town still keeps that habit of getting up and getting moving. A-2 Lawn Care, LLC keeps pace with it in both directions of the year: mowing, trimming and cleanups while the grass is running, then plowing, shoveling and salting once the pavement goes white. Winter here rarely announces itself politely — a clipper slides down from the northwest overnight, and by five in the morning the driveways need an answer. That is the hour the trucks are out, cutting the first lane so a car can reach the road. Come May the same properties get walked in daylight, and the mower lines come back across them in long, unhurried passes.