October in Tifton arrives as a smell first — pecan hulls splitting, dust off a cut field, the gnats finally easing their grip. D & T Lawn & Landscape spends those weeks mowing down the season's last flush, raking and hauling leaves, and recutting edges along brick walks that have gone soft at the borders since spring. Fall in South Georgia is generous with its light; by four the whole yard turns amber, and a finished one glows in it. Every property gets the same close attention, right down to the strip of grass between sidewalk and street. Tifton, Ty Ty, Unionville, and the roads running west toward Sylvester.