There is a week each October when Franklin Lakes gives up its leaves nearly all at once — the maples first, the oaks holding on into November out of pure stubbornness. Haas Landscaping runs the fall through it: clearing leaves off lawns and beds, cutting the grass down a final time, and opening the turf back to light and air before the cold locks everything in. Earlier in the year it is the ordinary rhythm of mowing, trimming and edging, week on week from the first cut onward. Both ends of the season serve the very same lawn. A yard raked clean in November is the reason the following spring comes in even.