The Rouge runs quiet through the low ground of this city, and in September the light coming over that river bottom turns long and yellow by four o'clock. F.J. LaFontaine & Sons Landscaping is often still working in it — mowing the last strong growth of the year, trimming banks and bed edges, cutting fresh lines along the drives and starting in on the leaves as the first ones let go. Early fall is the best stretch for turf around Farmington Hills, cool nights and enough rain, and a lawn given attention now carries that through to spring. There is a particular pleasure in a yard finished just as the sun drops behind the tree line, everything squared and swept. It looks like the season is being handled rather than survived.