November in this part of Livingston County is the between-time — the old rail corridor gone bare, the open fields brown, the sky low all afternoon and the first snow somewhere just north of here. Martin Outdoor Services, LLC works right across that seam: the last mow and the fall cleanup one week, the plow mounted and the salt loaded the next. Through the growing season it is mowing, trimming and edging on a steady weekly rhythm; through winter it is drives and lots opened and treated after every storm that amounts to anything. Being ready before the weather turns is half of it — the other half is arriving at the same hour whether the job is grass or ice. Genoa Township keeps both kinds of work coming, and both get the same attention.