By late October the sycamores along Riverside County Park have begun letting go, and the wind off the Passaic carries their leaves up into North Arlington's yards a few streets at a time. Aspen Landscape does the season's steady arithmetic — rake, clear, haul — until the lawn underneath comes back into view, still green and better for the light. Through the warm months the work is mowing and edging on a schedule, hedges shaped, borders held to a line. Autumn is the part that shows most, though: the difference between a yard buried and a yard ready. Beds get cut back, the drift of leaves along the curb disappears, and the property faces the cold looking cared for.