Along Pine Lane the planted maples and ashes go over in a single cold week each October, and Parker's lawns disappear underneath them almost overnight. Keown Landscaping shows up for that turn — leaf and debris cleanup, a last round of mowing, trimming and edging before the grass gives up for the year. The rest of the season is the same care in a lighter key, week after week through the short green months. Clearing a yard back down to bare, even turf in late fall is one of the more honest results in this trade: you can see precisely what you did. Then the first snow arrives and covers it, and nobody minds at all.