There is a stretch of Duluth where the old farm lanes at McDaniel Farm Park still run beneath hardwoods, and every autumn the ground there disappears under leaf and needle. Alpha Pinestraw and Landscaping keeps Gwinnett yards from going the same way, mowing, edging, trimming and clearing turf and bed lines as the season drops its load. Zoysia and fescue want different things in this county, and cut height shifts along with them. Walks, patios and drives are taken down to bare surface, since half the look of a lawn is the clean pavement beside it. Fall here is short and beautiful, and the work is simply keeping pace with it.