The woodlots around Beaverton are oak and maple with pine mixed through, and every October they hand their leaves down to the lawns beneath. Grove's Lawncare & Tree Services spends that stretch mowing one last time and hauling leaf away by the load, until the yards are bare and even and ready for what follows. Then the job changes — blades on the drives, walks opened, the same properties cleared morning after morning. Come May it all returns: mowing, trimming, a clean line around every trunk and bed. There's a rhythm to tending ground that grows hard and freezes harder.