By the middle of October the hills around Brighton go loud — maple orange over the ridgelines, oak holding out in rust, and then one windy night puts most of it on the ground at once. Killian's Landscaping Services works that stretch hard: leaves gathered and hauled off, beds cut back, the last mow set low so the lawn goes into winter tidy. Earlier in the year it is mowing, trimming and mulch, with edges redrawn whenever the grass tries to wander into the beds. Nothing about a yard in November is complicated; it simply has to be finished before the ground locks up. Brighton, Hartland, Howell and Pinckney.