October may be Burlington's kindest month: the wind lies down for a while, the light turns the color of straw, and Main Street gets its afternoons back. Williams Floral, Garden & Gifts is a flower and garden shop that also works outside, mowing, edging and trimming yards around town. Beds get cleared, borders get cut back to a clean line, and leaves get gathered before the next north wind moves them somewhere else. There is real pleasure in handing a place back tidier than you found it — the grass even, the edges crisp against the walk. Come spring the whole cycle starts over, and the town greens up block by block.