October on Long Reach turns the oaks to rust while the tide keeps its own quiet schedule below. Harraseeket Landscaping spends those weeks cutting the last growth of the year and clearing leaves off Harpswell lawns before the wet mats them down over the grass beneath. A yard put to bed properly in November comes back thicker in May, and that is the whole argument for autumn work. Then the plow goes on, and the winding drives on Great Island get opened storm after storm, right down to the gravel. Mowing through summer, clearing through winter: the same properties, watched all the way around.