By mid-October the mornings here arrive with frost on the windshield and the maples letting go all at once. PC lawncare LLC keeps working right through it in Bear Creek Township: the last cuts of the year taken low and clean, leaves gathered off the turf before they mat down, walks and beds cleared ahead of winter. Autumn yard work is unglamorous, and it decides how a lawn will look the following May. There is a plain satisfaction in the final pass of the year — the mower shut off, the yard bare and even, everything set right. Mowing, trimming, cleanup: the ordinary rhythm of a year spent up north.