At the edge of Milltown, where the streets loosen toward open ground, October arrives as low light, long shadows and leaves piling against the curb. Mike's Country Market Nursery & Landscaping mows and tends lawns out through that turn of the year — the late-season cuts, the trimming and edging that keep the borders honest, and the fall cleanup that clears leaves off the turf before wet weather sets in. Through summer it is the steady rotation: cut, trim, edge, blow off the walks. Grass has an easy time of it in this soft Raritan-valley ground, and it answers to a regular hand. By the last mow of November the yards are put away neatly, ready to come back.