For about ten days in late October the maples over North Plainfield go the color of a struck match, and the streets around Vermeule Park are worth walking twice a day. Red Maple Landscapes LLC is out under all that color doing the work it demands — final mowings, edges cut back, leaves pulled off lawns and beds and carried away before the rain mats them down. Earlier in the year it's the plain steady round of mowing, trimming and seasonal cleanups; later it's plow blades, shovels and salt across driveways and walks. December here can sit gray and dry for weeks and then hand over eight inches in a single night, so the trucks stay loaded. A property that gets both halves of that year from the same hands never has a gap in it.