The Normans Kill cuts its wooded ravine along the city's southwestern edge, and in September the light through those trees turns everything gold by four o'clock. Cleary's Landscape and Lawn Service keeps Albany yards through that turn, mowing while the grass still pushes, trimming the borders, then working the long fall cleanup as the maples let go. There is a particular pride in the last cut of the year, striped and even, holding its shape into November. Spring brings the opposite task: clearing away what winter left so the turf can wake up clean. The same lawns, watched across the whole arc of a year.