Down where Butler Creek runs low and dark between the pines, October comes on slowly: sweetgum going scarlet, the sun quitting earlier each week, yards filling with everything the trees decide to drop. GC Landscaping and Odd Jobs LLC works those Gracewood autumns — mowing while there is still growth in the blade, raking and hauling leaves, cutting the edges back where the summer blurred them. Sandy ground here drains fast and forgives a lot, but a lawn still needs somebody to keep its outline honest. A yard is done when the view from the porch runs clean all the way to the road. The truck covers Gracewood, Hephzibah, McBean and out toward Augusta.