All About Lawns

About All About Lawns

October comes to Coldwater Lake in a slow gold, and the lawns that run down toward the water fill with maple leaf faster than anyone can rake by hand. That is the stretch All About Lawns is built for: the last mowings of the year, the cleanup that gets a lawn out from under the leaf fall, the turf left in good order before the first hard frost. Then the wind swings northwest, the water goes pewter, and the same attention turns to plowing — driveways opened, walks cleared, the path to the front door made obvious again. It is patient work kept to a schedule that does not slip. A yard here ought to look tended in November and be walkable at six in the morning in January.