By the middle of October the oaks and maples along Mount Pleasant Avenue let go all at once and East Hanover disappears underneath them. McDonald Landscape Contractors clears it back — leaf cleanups, final mowings, trimming and edging that put a property to bed for winter looking square. Fall in Morris County is the season with a deadline, because whatever is left on the grass in November is what smothers it in March. A lawn combed clean, beds cut back, the curb line swept: the whole place looks lighter for it. Then the wind takes another round out of the trees and you go and do it again.