October is the month Geneseo earns its old maples back — a week of gold along the curb lines, and then it is all on the ground at once. Maple Leaf Lawn Solutions works that stretch hard: leaf cleanup, final mows, trim and edge work, and clearing yards down to bare turf before the first hard freeze locks everything in place. Through summer it is the weekly cut and the tidy line along drives and walks. Through winter it is plowing, shoveled walks and salt, because in this part of Illinois one season hands off to the next without much ceremony. A yard raked clean under a bare maple in November is worth stepping back to look at.