October runs tea-colored down Cedar Creek, and the ground in Lacey Township starts giving back what it borrowed all summer. Earth Care Lawn & Landscape reads that turn and answers it: the final mowings taken lower, leaves pulled off the turf before they mat, beds cut back and freshly mulched for the cold. Sandy Pinelands soil drains fast and forgets quickly, so the crew's habit is patience — feed the beds, keep the edges honest, let the lawn come into spring already tidy. There is a plain pleasure in a yard put to bed properly, every border sharp and the ground dark with new mulch. Come April the same hands are back with the mower for the first cut of the year. Lawn and landscape care, kept on the calendar the ground actually keeps.