By late October the water at Lake Windward goes glassy in the afternoon and the hardwoods let go all at once. Elias Landscaping works the neighborhoods off Windward Parkway through that turn in the year — mowing while the bermuda still asks for it, leaf cleanup once it stops, edging, shrub trimming, mulch refreshed before the beds go to sleep. There is a real pleasure in clearing a lawn that was ankle-deep an hour ago and handing it back clean. Spring brings the opposite problem and the same answer: arrive, cut true, blow it off, move on. The rhythm is simple and the result never stops being satisfying.