Late October out toward Far Hills and Peapack-Gladstone, the hills go gold and then bare in about ten days. Stagaard Landscaping LLC spends that stretch chasing leaves off Bernardsville lawns — blown from under the shrubs, gathered up off the lawn, hauled away before the rain turns them to a mat. Earlier in the year those same properties get the weekly treatment: mowing on the slope, trimming around posts and plantings, borders kept tight along the walks. Spring begins by pulling winter out of the grass so it can green up on time. There is genuine pleasure in the last cleanup of the year, when a yard is put to bed clean.