September out on the Carson City road smells like apples, and the mowing season starts its last long stretch. Wackerle Services keeps Greenville lawns cut, trimmed and edged through it, then turns to leaves as the maples let go, clearing the grass before the first hard frost pins them down. Spring runs the same way in reverse — winter's debris off, the first cut set, the walks edged clean again. Days shorten fast in Montcalm County, and by four the light goes copper across the fields. A good hour to finish a yard.