Autumn along the Tittabawassee is one long gold week — the rail-trail buried in leaves, the river slow, the yards of Midland Charter Township going down for the year. Sparks Lawn Care handles that turn with fall cleanups and a final cut, then picks the route back up with mowing, trimming and edging at the first green of April. Winter puts the crew on driveways and walks with plow, shovel and salt, working before dawn on flat township roads where the wind has had all night to rearrange things. Riverbottom ground grows a heavy, generous lawn, and keeping it even is work worth doing well. Lawn care and snow removal for Midland Charter Township, Sanford, Auburn and Freeland.