In October the ground at Hood Park goes gold, and everything overhead comes down inside of about three weeks — which is when the leaf work starts in earnest. Xtreme Lawn Care, LLC takes that stretch on with cleanups, hauling and the last cuts of the year, then trades the mower deck for the plow. Up on the hill in East Derry, by the old meetinghouse, January wind pushes snow back across a driveway twice before dawn, so it gets cleared twice. Come May those same yards want the opposite kind of care: a steady weekly cut, edges run sharp, string trimming around every fence post. Either way the finish line is the pleasure — pavement down to black, or a lawn with its lines still showing at dusk.