October is the long month in these foothills. Color works its way down the Brushies past Moravian Falls a little further each week, and the leaves land in the grass faster than any yard can absorb them. Foothills Home Improvement & Landscaping keeps mowing right through it around Reddies River, cutting the last growth of the year and clearing the fall off the turf before it mats down. A late-season lawn that has been kept up goes into winter short, clean and open instead of smothered. There is something worth having in a yard raked out and edged with the ridges going gold behind it.