By October the light in Lyerly comes in sideways, gold across the old mill street, and the yards down toward the Chattooga River begin letting go of their leaves. Neighborly Tree & Landscaping meets that turn with the plain work of lawn care — mowing while it still grows, running the trimmer along fence lines, cutting edges back into the walkways, and clearing the leaf fall before it mats down over the grass. A lawn raked out ahead of the first hard frost comes back stronger in April, which is most of the reasoning behind an autumn afternoon spent chasing leaves across a yard. The rest of the reasoning is simpler: this is neighbor work, done at the pace of a town where every drive is known by sight. Chattooga County keeps the schedule full, from Lyerly up toward Summerville and over the ridge to Menlo.