October turns the oaks around Hammonton a stubborn rust color, and they hold those leaves late, then let them all go at once. D&M LANDSCAPING spends the shortening afternoons on the cul-de-sacs and side streets, blowing beds out, clearing turf, hauling the piles away so the grass underneath can breathe. Through the warm months the work is simpler and just as particular: mowing on schedule, edges kept true, trimming around every post and downspout. Mulch goes in where the beds have thinned out. A lawn does not ask for much, but it asks for it consistently, and that is the job.