Down at Bolsters Mills the Crooked River runs quiet under the bridge, and come October the maples let go nearly all at once. Marcotte's Tree Care Inc. tends lawns across Otisfield through that season, mowing while there is still growth and then clearing the leaves off before they mat down and smother what is underneath. The rest of the year is mowing, trimming and edging — the ordinary rounds that keep a property looking looked-after. A lawn raked bare in November comes back greener in May, and that is the whole argument. Weather here does not ask permission; it arrives, and the work is timed to meet it.