By late October the hardwoods above Mossy Creek let go nearly all at once, and the yards down in the bottomland turn gold and rust overnight. Mossy Creek Contracting LLC spends those short afternoons on leaf cleanup and seasonal yard work — clearing beds, cutting hedge lines back square, spreading mulch before the cold settles into the clay. The light comes sideways off the foothills then, long across a mown lawn, and it shows every edge you did or didn't cut. They cut them. Come spring the mowing round starts again, and the same yards rise even and green from the road all the way to the porch steps.