Autumn here is a half-measure: the oaks turn and let go, the pitch pines never do, and Bargaintown spends November somewhere between brown and evergreen. J.F. Lawn Care & Landscaping works straight through it, mowing while the grass still asks for it and pulling leaves off lawns and beds once the wind starts stacking them against the fences. Fall is the season that decides what spring will look like — turf that goes into the cold clean and cut short comes back stronger. The work is unglamorous and it adds up. A yard raked out under a low gray sky, squared away for winter, is its own kind of finished.