October takes the ridge first and works its way downhill, and by mid-month Molly Ann Brook is carrying more leaves than water. J.calderon landscaping & construction spends those weeks moving what the wind drops — leaves raked off lawns and out of beds and hauled away, final mowings taken low, edges redrawn before the ground hardens. A yard put to bed properly in autumn is the reason it comes back thick in April, and that long view is most of the job. There is genuine pleasure in the last pass of a season, when a lawn sits clean and bare-shouldered under a sky the color of pewter.