There is a particular week in Boston Township when the corn is off, the fields go stubble-gold, and the light comes in low across every lawn at four in the afternoon. R&M Services is out mowing in it, taking the last cuts of the year at the height that carries turf into winter. Edges are cleaned along the drive, leaves are pulled off the grass instead of chopped into it, and the beds are cleared back to soil. The equipment leaves a lawn looking rested rather than shorn. Come spring the same yards wake up even and green, which is the entire point of the fall work.