By November the oak and hickory hills above Monroe have gone bare, and the lawns below are buried in what fell off them. M-M Lawn Care & Landscaping closes the year with that work, leaf clearing, a final cut, beds cut back and borders reset for winter. The rest of the season it is weekly cutting, trimming and edge work, plus the landscape tending that keeps plantings in their lines. Cold arrives here in a slow slide rather than all at once, which gives the fall a long and useful window. A yard cleared before the first freeze looks better in March for it.