October gets loud around Hill in a papery way, oaks and hickories letting go a week at a time until the yards go brown from the ground up. Cromwell Lawn Service works that stretch hard, clearing leaves out of the beds and off the turf so the grass gets light right up to the frost. Earlier in the year the same properties are on a mowing rhythm, cut at an even height with the edges kept firm along walk and drive. There is real pleasure in the last pass of a fall afternoon, when the lawn is bare green again and the wind has nothing left to move around. Hill and the roads out from it make up the run.