October in Richmond is a slow gold business — leaves letting go a few at a time, the air off Lake St. Clair turning sharp once the sun is down. Weingartz Lawn & Landscape is deep in fall cleanup then, moving leaves and giving lawns their last cut before the ground goes hard for the year. Weeks later those same properties need drives plowed, walks cleared and ice salted, and the season simply changes uniform. Come spring the mowers fire up again and the entire round starts over from the top. Richmond and the towns on either side of the county line.