October in western Illinois turns everything the color of its name — stubble fields, the cottonwoods along the creeks, dust hanging behind a combine in the last hour of daylight. Golden landscape & lawn care carries the season out to its end around Liberty: the final cuts, the leaf work, the cleanup that leaves a yard ready to sleep. There's a particular tidiness to a lawn in late fall, mown short and swept bare under empty limbs. It holds all winter, and come March you're glad you did it. Good ground deserves a good finish.