October is the month Taylor's big silver maples and pin oaks give up everything at once, and the streets fill with that dry, sweet smell of leaves on cool asphalt. Natural Way Lawn & Tree Service reads those trees the rest of the year — thinning crowded limbs, taking out deadwood before a wind event can do it the rough way, dropping a tree that has come to the end and grinding the stump down until grass can take the spot back. On the ground it is the steady work too: mowing through the green months, trimming, and the long haul of a leaf cleanup that keeps a lawn from smothering under its own canopy. A well-pruned maple keeps its own shape rather than a barbered one, and that is the point of the whole thing. Suburban shade is slow to grow here, so what is standing is worth tending.