September light in Clare comes in flat and gold, and the grass slows down just enough to hold a cut for a week and a half. Tiedeman, LLC mows through it, trimming around posts and beds and keeping the edges honest as the season tips toward leaves. Then comes the fall work, which around here means a lot of maple and a fair share of pine needle. There is a particular week in October when a raked lawn under bare trees looks completely finished, and that is what all of it aims at. After that the ground rests, and so does the mower.