Autumn in Champaign is a short and gorgeous negotiation — the maples along the west-side streets turn all at once, harvest dust hangs gold above the fields, and then one night the wind swings around to the north and it's over. Kouski Landscape Co. works straight through that hinge: mowing and trimming while the grass still asks for it, then fall cleanup, then plowing, walk clearing and ice control once the ground quits giving. Landscape beds get put to bed; drives get opened before six. The county's level, generous earth makes for an eager lawn and an unforgiving drift, and both are on the schedule. Watching a place go from raked to plowed without ever looking neglected is the year done properly.