November out toward Mundale is all bare branch and brown grass, the brook loud again after the summer drawdown, and the light gone by four thirty. Wilcox Landscaping spends those short weeks clearing leaves and putting yards to bed, then waits for the first storm to change the job entirely. After that it is driveways plowed, paths cut to the door, sand and salt where the slope makes ice. By April the mowers are back out — weekly cuts, trimmed borders, fresh mulch, edges reopened along every walk. One town, two trades, and the calendar decides which.