By early October the sun sits low over the Newfoundland ridges by four in the afternoon, and the mowing season begins counting itself down. West Coast Lawn Care runs it out to the end — cutting and trimming while there is still growth, edging the walks, then the cleanups that take a yard down to bare ground ahead of the cold. There is a real satisfaction to the final cut of the year, the lawn short and clean and put to bed properly. When spring returns the same yards get opened back up and the cycle begins again. In between, the property simply waits, tidy, under whatever these mountains send.