For a couple of weeks in late October the maples along Belleville's older avenues turn a whole street orange, and then one windy night they let go all at once. Maple Leaf Lawn Service is out for both halves of that story — mowing and cleanup while the color is still up, plowing and salting once the branches stand bare and the sky goes to iron. The ground in St. Clair County freezes, thaws, and freezes again, so ice control counts for as much as moving snow does. Come spring the same yards take the first cut of the year and the whole cycle starts over. Belleville, Smithton, Freeburg, Swansea and Millstadt, on both sides of the calendar.