East of the village the fields run flat and dark, orchard rows on one side and Wayne County farmland on the other, and October light lies across all of it like something poured. Countrycare Landscape Management, Inc. works the properties in between — mowing, trimming, edging, and the seasonal cleanups that carry a yard from leaf-fall into hard ground. When the ground does turn, the crew turns with it, plowing driveways and salting the places where boots slip. A tidy strip of turf beside a farm lane is a small thing, and it is also the whole point. That is what the year looks like out here, start to finish.