Late October light comes in low over Milan, gold on the last of the maples, and the leaves start arriving faster than anyone can keep up with. Russ Lawn Care keeps up with them — clearing the turf, running the cleanups, taking the final cuts that carry a lawn into the cold. Earlier in the year it is the plain weekly business of mowing, trimming and edging, one yard at a time. There is a particular pleasure in the moment a yard goes from buried to bare, the curb line showing again, the grass green underneath. Then the truck moves on, and the next house gets the same.