Along the bluff at Pine Beach the river opens wide and October arrives first as a smell — pine, brackish water, wet oak leaves banked in the gutters. DBM Landscaping LLC spends that month on cleanups, mowing whatever is still growing, edging, trimming, and hauling the leaf drop off before rain mats it flat. Then the trucks change over and the winter half begins: plowing driveways and lots, opening paths once the weather turns hard. There is a plain kind of pride in being the reason somebody gets out of the driveway on a bad morning. Toms River and its river towns keep both halves of the year busy.