October in Wheeling Township is oak weather: the bur oaks hold on stubbornly, then let everything go in one windy week. Perez Landscaping spends those weeks in the yards, raking the beds out and pulling the leaves off the turf before they mat down and smother it, then taking the grass to its last cut of the year. Spring finds the same crews on the same lawns, opening the beds back up and getting the mowing onto a rhythm again. In between it is mowing, edging and trimming, done on a schedule so nothing ever has a chance to get ahead of itself. A yard kept all season looks like someone is paying attention to it, because someone is.