October is the honest season in Orange, when the oaks and maples along the Wendell hills let go all at once and every lawn in town disappears under gold. Gelinas Waste Recycle Landscape works into that tide — raking, clearing, carrying the fall away so the grass can breathe through the cold months. Then the hills go quiet and white, and the same trucks turn to plowing, opening driveways while the sky is still the color of slate. Spring finds them back at the mowing, cutting the first thick growth that follows a north-county thaw. It is unglamorous, seasonal, deeply satisfying work: a property handed back clean, over and over, year after year.