October in Norwood Park turns the parkways — those grass strips between walk and curb — into long yellow drifts. Linda's Lawn Care clears them out: leaves blown and hauled, the last mowings taken low, beds cut back and topped before the frost. Where summer blurred it, the line between concrete and turf gets brought back sharp. Aeration and seeding go down so the thin spots come in thicker come spring. There is a particular pleasure in a bare, clean lawn under a gray sky, waiting.