Cabot in late October turns loose enough oak leaf to bury a front yard twice over, and the wind off the flat prairie to the east does the piling. New Leaf Lawncare LLC works the neighborhoods along the highway and the roads that run back into the pines — mowing while it still grows, then leaves, then a last clearing before the cold. The town has spread out over the low hills north of Little Rock, and every new street brings another lawn learning what it wants to be. The method is patience and a straight line: cut it even, edge the walk, clean out the beds, leave nothing scattered. By March the fescue is up again and the whole calendar starts over.