By mid-October the water at Lake Takanassee goes pewter and the leaves start letting go all at once. Franks Landscaping Service LLC spends those weeks in the middle of it — the last mowings of the year, trimming back what's finished, edging the walks, clearing beds and lawns down to bare tidy ground. There's a rhythm to a fall cleanup that never gets old: the blowers, the tarps, the yard emerging from under the season. Come April the same lawns wake up faster for having been put to bed properly. It's a long game, and they play it a year at a time.