By September the light over the flat ground east of Thorn Creek comes in at a slant, and the grass slows to a walk. Genos Father&Son Lawn Services LLC keeps mowing through it, tapering the cuts as the season winds down and clearing what starts dropping along the parkways. Two sets of hands move faster than one, and it shows in the pace of an autumn cleanup — one on the mower, one working the edges and the beds. Bloom Township yards hold a lot of maple and ash, so the leaves arrive nearly all at once and have to be dealt with the same way. A yard put to bed properly in October looks better the following May.