By mid-October the oaks above Bearsden Woods have gone rust and copper, and every lawn in Athol is under an inch of leaves by Friday. Taylors tree and landscape spends that stretch of the year getting out ahead of it — cutting the grass down a last time, clearing leaves off the turf and out of the bed lines, leaving the yard tidy before the ground hardens. Earlier on it is the regular rhythm of mowing and trimming, week after week, held from the first green right to the last. A raked lawn under bare trees has an order to it that is worth the effort it takes. Lawn and landscape maintenance in Athol and neighboring towns.