South of town the hedgerows and preserve woodlots break up the section lines, and autumn moves through them a week before it reaches the yards in town. JC Landscaping and Tree Service works with that timing — mowing into the cool weeks, trimming and edging while the ground is still firm, then the fall cleanup that strips a lawn back to green ahead of the first hard freeze. Country lots and town lots ask for different passes; one is a question of scale, the other of detail. A raked, mowed yard in November has a stillness to it that repays the effort. After that everything sleeps until the ground softens again.