Macon came by the name City of Maples honestly — whole streets of them — and every October those trees cash the whole thing in at once. Butner's lawn care LLC works under that fall, clearing leaves off lawns block by block before the rain turns them into a lid the grass cannot breathe through. Out west of town the wind comes off Long Branch and pushes drifts of them into every hedge and porch corner, which is where the real work waits. Mowing carries on into the cool weeks, dropping a little each time, and edging holds the walk lines against the freeze and thaw ahead. There are few better sights in northern Missouri than a maple-lined street of yards cleared down to green with the bare limbs standing over them.