October along the older streets near Windsor Grove is a slow gold explosion — the big trees let go all week, and the lawns beneath them vanish an inch at a time. Gold Paw Lawn & Landscape clears all of that off: mowing while the grass still asks for it, trimming and edging, hauling leaves and the season's litter out of the yard. Left alone, a wet mat of leaves will smother a lawn straight through to spring, which is the whole argument for showing up. The finished yard looks bare and tidy and ready for what comes next. Then the first snow lands on it, and it holds up fine.