September afternoons go gold over Lincoln Park — goldenrod along the back fences, the light coming in sideways under the maples. Fino Landscaping of Downriver does its clearest thinking in that season, mowing and trimming while the growth slows, tidying hedges and beds, setting a yard up to look right through the holidays. Then the wind changes and it becomes plow routes, walkways, and salt on the ice that always forms in the shade beside the garage. Every block down here has its own small weather of shadow and drift. Learning those is most of the craft.