October on the Crow Hill ledges in Leominster State Forest, and for about three weeks the valley below runs copper and rust straight to the rooftops. Washington's Landscape & Hardscape, LLC is busiest then — leaves off the lawns, beds put down for the year, the last cuts of a season that started in mud and ends in frost. Winter follows fast in this corner of Worcester County, and the work becomes plowing: driveways and lots opened while the sky is still emptying. There is a plain pride in a property that looks tended in every month of the calendar and not only in July. Along Route 13 and Route 117 that means lawn care through the growing months and snow removal after them.