Late October in southeast Atlanta comes in cool and low-angled, sweetgum balls underfoot, the leaf drop just beginning along the creek bottoms that drain toward the South River. Blount's Lawn Care Solutions LLC works right through it — leaves cleared and carried off, beds cut back, one last even pass across turf that is slowing down for the year. Spring through fall the schedule is simple and it is kept: mow, edge, trim, clear, again. A name on the tailgate means the work answers to somebody, and that shows up in the corners of a yard. The properties look looked-after, which is the whole point.