By late October the township oaks have gone rust and the light comes in sideways all afternoon, low over stubble fields and fence posts. The mowing winds down, but the work doesn't — leaves drift into corners, along foundations, under the hedges. Royal Lawn Service handles that closing stretch and the whole run before it: mowing, trimming and edging through the growing season, a spring cleanup to start the year and a fall cleanup to put it away. There is something settling about a yard cleared to bare grass before the cold, ready and waiting. Nothing left but the shape of the lawn itself.