By mid-October the road through Readfield Depot runs gold, and every yard in town is knee-deep in what the maples have let go. Fournier's Tree Service, LLC handles lawn care here — cutting through the growing season, trimming, and the raking and hauling that clears a lawn before the ground hardens. There is a rhythm to it: long summer weeks of even mowing, then the autumn push when a property turns back into open grass in a single afternoon. Along Route 17 the fields go tawny and the hills toward Kents Hill hold their color a few days longer. A yard raked bare, with the grass still standing green underneath, is a result worth stopping to look at.