November in McDuffie County is a slow surrender: sweetgum first, then the water oaks, then pecan leaves skating across a driveway on the least little wind. Leaves & Landscaping goes after all of it — raking and blowing yards back down to grass, clearing beds and fence corners where the drifts pile deepest. The rest of the year is mowing, edging and trimming on a weekly turn, keeping the lawn even so autumn has something clean to fall onto. There is a particular quiet at the end of a leaf job: the yard swept open, the last blower shut off, the light going. Thomson, Norwood, Warrenton and the roads that connect them.