October in old Animas City is a slow rain of leaves — cottonwood gold on the ground, scrub oak going rust up the hillsides, and every lawn on the north end buried by the second week. ClearView Cleanup LLC exists for exactly that: pulling a yard back out from under the season, clearing beds and corners, cutting the grass down for its long sleep, and re-cutting the walk borders until the lines show again. Mowing, trimming and tidying run right through the growing months too, but autumn is when the difference is loud. There is a particular pleasure in the last pass of the rake, when a yard that was ankle-deep an hour ago is simply a lawn again. Then the light goes low and gold across it, and the day is done.