October turns the light in Stevenson low and gold, and the maples let go all at once the week after the first hard frost. Watkins Outdoor Services LLC keeps pace with it — mowing while the grass still grows, clearing leaves off the beds and the parkway, taking the yard down clean before the cold. Summer work is steadier: a weekly pass, trimmed fence lines, edges held sharp along the walk. There is real satisfaction in the last cut of the year, when a lawn goes into winter looking tended rather than left. Come April they are back, and the grass remembers.