October hands this town its color — maples going copper above the water, the last mowings of the year, cut grass and cold ground smelling like one thing. Elite Landscapes LLC works both sides of that turn, mowing, trimming, edging and doing landscape work through the green months, then plowing and clearing once the ground locks up. Fall cleanups run until the leaves are done falling; after that the trucks take blades. Winter here rarely announces itself politely — it arrives overnight on a northwest wind and expects the driveway open by morning. Getting it open is the entire point, and there is a plain satisfaction in a lot scraped clean while the town is still dark.