Downstream of North Aurora the Fox River widens and slows, and the trail beside it fills each October with cottonwood leaves that want to be somewhere else — mostly on the lawns nearby. Lockhart's Landscaping & Maintenance, Inc. meets that stretch of the calendar head-on with fall cleanups, then trades rakes for plow and salt once Kane County goes hard and white. Mowing, trimming and lawn upkeep carry the warm months on a schedule. What the crew likes is the before-and-after: a yard shaggy and leaf-buried at eight in the morning, squared away and quiet by noon. Aurora and its river towns keep them going right around the year.