Richland Creek slips through Belleville under the sycamores, and every October it carries off what used to be somebody's front yard. Bipps Lawn Service LLC follows the year all the way down: cutting while the grass still climbs, hauling out the leaf fall when it comes, then trading the mower deck for a plow blade the week the cold arrives in earnest. The turn from green to gray happens fast in this county, and the trucks are set up for it either way. There is a particular satisfaction in a lot scraped clean to the asphalt with the snow stacked where it will not be in anybody's way. The trucks cover Belleville, Swansea, Freeburg and Smithton, in grass season and in snow.