North of the last streetlight Brigantine gives way to dune grass and marsh, and the salt meadows out toward the refuge turn bronze every October. Giron Landscaping LLC works the neighborhoods that face all that open ground — mowing through the growing months, trimming along fences and dune-fence posts, edging drives until the sand knows where it stands. Autumn is the island's good season: the greenheads gone, the light long, the grass still worth cutting well into November. When snow does come across the inlet, the trucks go out to open the drives and the front paths before anyone has to guess at the curb line. The island is small enough to know entirely, and that turns out to be an advantage.