By late October the beet trucks are running, the fields go bare, and every lawn in Spaulding Township disappears under what the maples and the wind brought. Loper Landscaping takes the season out — leaf removal, fall cleanup, the last cuts, beds cut back before the ground hardens — and brings it back in come April with the spring cleanup and the first mow. In between it is the steady weekly work of mowing, trimming and edging, a yard held to the same shape from May through October. Raking a lawn down to bare, tidy turf just ahead of the freeze is one of the more honest jobs there is. Frankenmuth, Bridgeport and Saginaw all sit inside the same short drive.