The marsh grass along the Squamscott goes bronze in October, and the work turns with it — the last patio set into place, the plow edges checked, one season handed off to the next without a gap. Rye Beach Landscaping is a landscape design-build and excavation outfit on the New Hampshire Seacoast, working from dirt to done: house lots, site drainage, septic systems, demolition, and then the finer end of the same trade — walkways and patios, retaining walls, natural stone and antique granite, tree and shrub planting, perennial design, lawn installation, landscape lighting, and carpentry for steps, decks, and pergolas. There is a real pride in a stone wall that sits true against an Exeter hillside, in a new lawn that takes root and holds its ground, in a light that finds the path for you after dusk. Then the wind swings northeast off the water and the same hands are out ahead of the town, clearing and treating while the brick streets are still dark. Come the thaw, the granite is still square, the beds wake up, and the whole round begins again.