By the middle of October the maples down in the Flint River bottomland have let go, and every yard in Richfield wears a red and yellow blanket that will smother a lawn if it sits there. MB&C Outdoor Solutions, LLC handles that turn of the year — leaf clearing, a final low cut, and the mowing and trimming that carried the property all summer before it. Grass here is asked to grow in heavy ground on a short season, so the schedule bends to what the weather actually did that week rather than what the calendar promised. It is a good feeling to walk off a property and see turf, not litter, from the road all the way back to the fence. Richfield, Davison, Columbiaville and the townships strung between them.