By September the tomato vines on Linden's chain-link fences have gone leggy and the lawns have stopped racing, growing slow and deep-green in the cooler mornings. Manuel & Family landscaping works that turn in the year — mowing on a longer interval, edges recut where summer blurred them, beds cleared of what the heat finished off. Then the leaves start, and the yards need emptying more than cutting: hedge bottoms, fence corners, the strip between the walk and the curb. Fresh mulch closes it out and the ground goes into the cold looking tended. Spring finds the same yards easy to wake up, which is the quiet argument for doing the fall properly.