Come October the oaks and pitch pines out toward Allaire let go all at once, and half of Wall Township turns the color of a paper bag. Auen's Landscaping works that stretch of the calendar hard: leaf cleanups, hauling, cutbacks and mulch, alongside the mowing and trimming that carries a yard from April to the last warm week. There is an order to it, beds edged first, then the turf, then the drive blown clean so nothing tracks inside. Winter arrives quietly in this part of Monmouth County, and a property put to bed properly shows it the following May. A small thing done right, repeated all season, is the whole of the work.