By mid-October the hardwood ridges above the Broad River start turning, and mowing settles into the slower, sweeter stretch of the year. Autumn Landscape And Lawn Care LLC uses it well: cuts spaced further apart as growth eases, leaves lifted off the turf before they mat down over a wet week, edges reset where summer let them drift. The trimmer still goes around every post and stone, and the walks are still cleared down to the concrete, because a yard put away for winter ought to look put away on purpose. Cool nights, low sun through the sycamores, woodsmoke somewhere over the county road, good weather to be outside working. Then spring starts it over, and the same lawns come back green under the same hands.