October along the Ada village storefronts is all copper light and the smell of leaves, and that is the busiest sort of pretty. Mendez Landscape works both halves of the calendar here, mowing, trimming, edging and cleaning up while things grow, then plowing, shoveling and salting once they stop. A fall cleanup done right leaves a lawn breathing and ready to come back in April; a driveway plowed right leaves a household free to simply go. The township's mix of river-bottom yards and hillside lots means no two properties get quite the same approach. Each one gets the approach it needs.