October along the Spring Lake boardwalk belongs to the walkers and the gulls, and the light comes in low and gold off the water. That is when the lawns behind the dune line do their best growing, cool nights and long afternoons, right before the leaves start coming down in earnest. Maccanicos Lawn Services works that stretch of the calendar hard — mowing on into the fall, edging the walks, and clearing leaves off grass and beds before they mat and smother anything. Ocean weather is not gentle on a yard, and there is honest pride in handing back a lawn that reads even and unhurried after a week of wind. By the last cut of the year the property is put to bed properly, ready to be handed back to the cold.