By early November the canal water is shut off across the Grand Valley and the grass stops asking for anything. That last cut of the year is its own particular job: the yard mown low and level, the edge run one final time, every leaf and clipping carried off so nothing sits and rots through the cold. Prestige Landscaping LLC treats it as the closing of a book rather than an afterthought. A lawn put away clean in November comes out of winter ahead of one that was simply abandoned. Clifton in the off months still looks like somebody has been by.