October in Cohoes smells like woodsmoke and wet leaf, and the blocks around Canal Square go gold for about ten days before letting go. Godino Landscaping spends those weeks with rakes and blowers, clearing beds and lawns down to bare grass before the first hard freeze locks everything in place. Earlier in the year those same yards get the weekly work — mowing, trimming, edging, the tidy repetitions that add up to a summer of looking good. There is a quiet pleasure in a property put to bed properly in November and woken up clean in April. Cohoes deserves that; it has always been a place that keeps itself.