By mid-October the hills above the Rockaway River valley have gone copper and rust, and the wind that comes down from Denville way carries most of it into somebody's yard. PT Landscaping NJ is out in it with rakes and blowers and a truck that fills faster than you'd think, clearing leaves off the lawns of White Meadow Lake before the first hard rain glues them down. The last cuts of the season happen in the same weeks, a little lower each time, setting the grass up for the cold. There is real satisfaction in the moment a buried lawn reappears, green and startled, under all that gold. Then the beds get cleaned out, and the place is put to bed properly.