Where the township keeps its woods, the hickories turn first and drop a coarse yellow layer over every lawn downwind of them. Timberland Crew Landscaping does its lawn care with those trees in mind — mowing between root flares, trimming around trunk rings and split-rail fence, then clearing leaves off the turf before the mat sets in and smothers the grass. Working a wooded lot is slower than working open ground; the mower goes where it can and the rest is done by hand. Autumn is the proving season here, and the result is a yard that comes out from under the leaf fall looking cared for rather than buried. Come spring the same grass wakes up thick, which is the quiet payoff for a careful November.