October around Coleman turns the maples along the village streets loud, the fields go to stubble, and the light comes in low and gold across the Midland County flats by four in the afternoon. Parker's Landscaping spends that stretch on leaves — hauled off the lawns before the rain sets them, beds cleaned out, everything cut short and squared away ahead of the freeze. Earlier in the year the same yards get the weekly mow, the trimmed edges, the mulch beds held sharp against the grass. It is plainly visible work: you can see exactly what was done and how carefully, right up until snow covers it over. Come spring the cleanup starts it again, and Coleman greens up from there.