October gets to Montrose early. The maples along the side streets let go all at once, and by the weekend the yards are ankle deep in them. Mowjo's Lawn Care LLC works that stretch of the calendar hard — the last mowings of the year, trimming, edging, and hauling the leaf litter off before it mats down over the turf. There is a real satisfaction in standing at the end of a driveway in cold bright air and looking back at a yard that is completely clear. Then it begins again in April, in the village and out on the farm sections north of it, week by week until the frost.