By October the chamisa along 84/285 has gone loud yellow, and the cottonwoods down on the Pojoaque follow a week later. Paramount landscape spends that stretch mowing while it's still worth mowing, then clearing the leaf fall ahead of the first hard freeze. Autumn cleanups here are half tidying and half preparation: turf that goes into a high-desert winter clean comes out of it green. Edges stay cut sharp along walks and gravel the whole season through. Then the valley pulls its color in, and the yards sit trim and waiting under the Sangre de Cristos.