By mid-October the maples along Shortsville's side streets have made their decision, and a yard can go from green to buried inside a week. M & M Tree Lawn & Landscp Llc works that turn — leaf cleanup, mowing right up until the grass quits, trimming, edging, and the final tidy that leaves a lawn ready to sleep. Farm country rolling east toward Phelps sets the weather here, and it does not ask permission first. Raking a yard back down to visible grass on a cold, bright afternoon is one of those small and completely finished things. Shortsville and the crossroads around it, autumn through the last cut.