Along Cottrell Road the hedges are older than most of the houses behind them, and they mark the season better than any calendar. Landscaping by Anthony works Old Bridge on both sides of that line — lawn mowing, trimming and edging while things are still growing, then snow plowing, shoveled walks and salt once November hands the year off. Autumn is the busy hinge: leaves down, last cut in, equipment turned over in a single week. Then the first storm comes and the day starts in the dark again. A property tended straight through never really has a bad-looking month.