October in Medford Lakes drops oak leaf onto pine needle until the yards along Lower Aetna Lake wear two colors at once. MVP Lawn Service and Landscape works that turn of the calendar — the last mowings, the edge held crisp into the cool weeks, the leaves gathered off lawn and walk before the rain packs them down. Then the season flips, and the same trucks come through with plows for the driveways that wind back among the cabins, salt for the steps, a shovel for the places a blade cannot fit. Between them the two halves of the year make one continuous piece of work: keep the ground under this borough usable. Cut in summer, cleared in winter, tended in the weeks that bridge them.