October is when Cave Creek exhales. The heat lets go, the trails in Cave Creek Regional Park fill up again, and yards that spent the summer merely surviving get to look good instead. American Desert Landscape takes that turn seriously — running its mowing rounds, cutting the edges back, trimming along the walls and carrying off the summer's litter of seed pods and blown palo verde. Autumn work sets up the cool months, when a lawn can hold real color while the rest of the Sonoran goes quiet and tan. Coming back to a place you cut last week and finding it still square is a plain kind of pride, and it is the one this work runs on.