October lays a yellow drift down Grand River Avenue and keeps refilling it every time the wind picks up. R and A Outdoor Sales and Service spends that stretch on fall cleanups — leaves cleared off the lawns and out of the corners, the last mows of the year, edges cut back before the ground hardens. Fowlerville yards keep their maples close to the house, which makes the work slow and the result obvious. Through summer the same properties get mowing and trimming on rotation. A lawn raked bare in late fall has a kind of dignity to it.