By mid-October the maples along the side streets of West Branch let go all at once, and a lawn can vanish under them over a single weekend. G&H Lawns Inc. works the back end of that season hard — leaves hauled off, beds cleared, the last cut of the year taken a touch short so the grass goes into the cold clean. Earlier on it is the ordinary cadence: mow, trim, edge, roll to the next street and do it right there too. Ogemaw County hands out about seven months of growing and then closes the door, so the calendar matters more here than most places. There is something quietly good about the final pass in November, the yard bare and tidy and put to bed.