Drive M-119 north in the third week of October and the trees close over the road like a ceiling; two weeks later that ceiling is lying on the ground. Fettig's Landscaping Inc handles both ends of it around Petoskey — mowing, trimming and edging while the grass is running, then the leaf haul, then the switch to plowing, shoveling and salting once the road turns white. Landscape work fills the shoulders of the year: beds shaped, mulch down, borders held to a line. The satisfaction lives in the transitions, when a property goes from one shape to the next without a gap in between. Nothing left half-finished while the weather changes its mind.