October comes into Boone on a west wind that strips the maples in about a week. Great Lakes Lawn and Landscape spends that stretch chasing leaves off lawns around Boone and out along the farm roads toward Belvidere — raking, blowing, hauling, then setting a final low cut before the ground hardens. There is real satisfaction in a yard that goes into the cold bare and tidy, gutter line to curb. The rest of the year is mowing, trimming and cleanup, week after steady week. Come April those same lawns wake up even, because somebody put them down right.