Out at Sunset Bay the water goes slate in October and the cottages start closing up one by one. Lawn care around Hanover follows the same arc: a season of weekly mowing, trimming and edging, then the long autumn stretch of leaf removal and cutting things back for winter. Spring reverses it — beds raked open, turf cleaned of the winter's wreck, the first mow setting everything straight again. Between those two ends it is steady maintenance, the kind that keeps a yard from ever looking forgotten. There is something satisfying about a lawn left clean when the season finally lets go of it.