After Labor Day the Promenade empties out and Cape May exhales; the light goes thin and gold, and from Beach Avenue you can hear the surf again. Southern Shores Landscaping keeps mowing straight through that quiet stretch, cutting, edging and string-trimming yards where the privet has been sheared flat by wind off the water. Their autumn is leaf cleanup and bed cutback, the slow tidying that lets a shore property sit out the winter without going shaggy. Come spring they feed and overseed the thin turf until it comes back dense enough to take an August of bare feet. Nothing dramatic about it — just a lawn kept in trim a few blocks from the sea, week after week after week.