By mid-October the mowing turns quiet — the grass slows, the mornings run cold, and every cut might be the last one. Montes Pro Services works that turning stretch of the year along Walton and the streets that feed it, mowing while there's still growth, trimming edges tight, clearing the walks. Earlier the pace is weekly and the grass never gets ahead of anyone; later it's leaves, and then it's finished. Autumn in Pontiac is generous with color and stingy with daylight, so the routes run tight and the days end early. A last cut, cleanly done, is what a lawn wears all winter.