October comes into Crawfordville dry and gold, and the red clay roads set up hard as pavement. Buck & Brush lawn care mows the yards, then goes after everything crowding them — briars along the fence line, brush at the field edge, saplings pushing into a driveway. Regular visits bring trimming, edging and a blow-down of walks and porches, and once the oaks let go the leaves are raked up and hauled off. Shrubs are cut back to shape before winter and beds are mulched to hold the ground. Out this way a yard has to be kept against the woods, and that is the job.