October in Metropolis is what July owes you — the humidity lets go, the light off the Ohio stretches long and yellow, and the grass keeps growing anyway. TDK Lawn Care works those weeks with mower and trimmer, holding a steady cut and defined borders while the rest of the country winterizes. Massac County simply runs a different calendar, greener later, later into the fall. There are few finer afternoons than the last mow of a season on a still day near the river. Then the leaves come down, the yards get cleared, and the year closes tidy.