Come November the wind off the big lake pushes east across Allegan County and strips the maples in Heath Township in about four days. JR Leaf Services meets it there — leaves pulled off the turf before the rain welds them into a mat, corners and fence lines cleared out, beds and walks blown clean, the lawn taken down to an even final height for the year. Earlier in the season the same properties get the ordinary steady care: mow, trim, edge, sweep off. But autumn is the month this work earns its keep, because a lawn that goes under snow buried in leaves never quite forgives it. Cleared yards across Heath Township and the townships around it.