By November, Alamo's oaks have let go and the pines have dropped a season's straw across every lawn in town. Alamo Mowing & Tree Care spends those weeks with rake and blower as much as mower — clearing leaves and needles off grass, walks and drives, cutting back what has grown into the paths, and setting the edges clean again before winter. Wheeler County winters are gentle enough that a lawn never truly disappears; it simply waits, and it waits better when it is clean. There is something worth doing about handing a yard back tidy on a cool afternoon with the light going early. Alamo and its neighbors along the Little Ocmulgee are the working area.