October is Georgetown's most generous month — cool mornings, dry afternoons, and the sycamores and maples around the park letting go a little more with every gust off the surrounding fields. Readnour Landscaping spends it clearing leaves off lawns, walks and beds before the rain glues them down, closing out a season that started back in April with mowing, trimming and edging on a weekly turn. Vermilion County ground gives you a long growing year and a short window to put it to bed properly. Finishing a fall cleanup is one of the better feelings in this line of work: a yard swept flat and clean, ready to sit out the cold. Then in spring the whole conversation starts again, and that is fine by us.