September in the older McHenry streets is all long shadows and big maples, the grass finally growing easy again after August. Golden Age Landscaping works those blocks — weekly mowing, trimming, crisp edges, and the cleanups that bookend the season at both ends. Once the maples let go and the cold sets in, the crew switches to snow: plowing driveways, clearing walkways, salting the ice that forms under the very trees that shaded the lawn. A property should look cared for in November as much as in June, and that is the standard the work is measured against. Work goes out across McHenry, McCullom Lake, Johnsburg and Wonder Lake.