October in Acworth comes down in layers — hickory yellow first, then sweetgum red, then the slow drift of oak leaves that keeps going into December. McDonald Lawn Service knows those weeks well: mowing tapers off, cleanup takes over, and a yard buried on Friday is open and breathing again by Saturday afternoon. Red clay holds onto whatever lands on it, so leaves get moved off rather than left to mat down the turf all winter. The rest of the year it is the steady cycle — cut, trim, edge, blow the walks — the sort of upkeep nobody notices until it stops. Around here, a yard raked clean before Thanksgiving is its own kind of good news.