October on the bay side of Truro is the town's best-kept hour — Route 6 gone quiet, the tide pulled out past Corn Hill, and the light coming in low and gold across the flats. That is prime season for Jonathan Rice Landscaping: last mowings, leaf and pine-needle cleanups, beds cut back before the first hard freeze. Then the calendar flips and the work becomes plowing and shoveling, clearing the steep sandy drives that fall away toward the water so a house is reachable at six in the morning. Lawn care here means working with wind and sand rather than against them, and knowing when to leave a thing alone. The pleasure is in the result: a property that looks settled, whichever direction the season is heading.