By October the apple houses up the road toward Cornelia are humming, sourwood and maple have turned along the ridges, and the yards in Baldwin ask for a different sort of week. Southern roots Landscape carries that turn through — mowing while the grass still wants it, edging the walks, trimming the fence lines, then leaf and yard-debris cleanup once the hardwoods let go in earnest. Cool mornings let the mower run all day without the grass wilting behind it, and that is when these lawns look their most settled. When spring comes around the same route opens again with the first flush of green rising through the foothills. There is real pleasure in handing back a yard that looks ready for company.