October in Marshfield turns the oaks a slow rust while the pitch pines stay stubbornly green, and every lawn beneath them vanishes under a week's worth of drop. Stallings Lawn & Tree Service is out with mowers and blowers then, cutting, edging, trimming and hauling leaves off before rain packs them into a mat. Earlier in the year the work is simpler and just as steady — a weekly cut, a clean line along the walk, string trimming where the mower will not fit. Shade and sandy soil make growing grass here a real project. Getting it even anyway is the satisfaction.