Buck Creek runs low and brushy along the township's western edge, and by late October the whole shallow valley has gone rust and gold. Jack of all Blades Landscaping likes this hinge in the year — mowers still out for the closing cuts, plow gear already checked and waiting on the first storm that means business. When it comes, the work turns to opening driveways and lots before daylight, in a corner of Michigan where the lake can decide overnight how the morning will go. Spring swings the pendulum back, and it is mowing, trimming and edging again on properties from the Byron Center line across to Dutton. Two trades, one calendar, and no stretch of the year without something worth doing.