By mid-October the bosque turns the color of struck brass and Peralta spends a few weeks living inside a lantern. Gows Customs LLC works that season the way it works all of them: mowing down to the last warm weeks, then hauling the cottonwood leaves off the turf before they mat and go gray. A yard raked out clean in autumn is a yard that comes back willing in April. Between visits the borders stay honest, the trim tight where lawn meets curb and post. It is small work with a long echo.