October arrives at Hammonton Lake slowly and then all at once — one week the maples are holding, the next the water is skinned with leaves and every path needs sweeping. That is the season RPM Landscape Contractor moves through with a full trailer: last cuts, cleanups, beds emptied and edges reset before the ground goes hard. Then December turns the same routes into plow routes, driveways and walks opened while the sky is still black over the rooftops. The pleasure is in the contrast — a lawn put to bed properly in fall, a drive scraped down to pavement in winter, both finished before anyone thinks to ask. Hammonton takes its weather from two directions, and the work simply answers whichever one shows up.