Down in the village of Housatonic, where the brick mill blocks sit close to the water and the maples turn copper in the second week of October, the leaf drop is a two-week event. Pugo Home Services handles the yard work on either side of it — mowing, trimming and edging along walks and drives all summer, then fall cleanups that lift the leaves off before rain glues them to the grass. Spring asks for the opposite: winter debris raked out, beds cleared, and the first cut that makes a place look inhabited again. Great Barrington properties run from small village lots to long open lawns, and the routine adapts to whichever one it finds. What stays constant is a yard that looks like somebody has been there.