September is the quiet peak of the lawn year here — cool nights, heavy dew coming off Onondaga Lake, grass thickening up while everyone else has stopped paying attention. Turf Magic Llc keeps at it — mowing, trimming and edging, and the fall cleanup that clears leaves off before they mat down for the winter. A lawn given care in autumn is the lawn that comes back strong when the lake ice finally lets go in March. The trees along Long Branch put on their color and the mowers run a few more weeks yet. Then everything is raked out, tidy, and put to bed.