Ypsilanti's oaks hold their leaves longer than anything else in town, letting go in brown handfuls well into November after the maples have long since finished. Superior Landscape Companies works that late stretch and the whole arc around it — mowing, trimming and edging through the growing season, spring and fall cleanups, and snow plowing, walk clearing and ice control once the last leaf is down. A lawn stripped clean before the first hard freeze looks ready to sleep, and getting it there is what November is for. Winter then becomes a matter of keeping pavement honest, one storm at a time. By the time the ground softens again the yard is waiting rather than recovering.