In late October the hills above Vine Valley turn all at once, and from the lake road the color runs a long way north up the water. Unique Service Lawncare is out under it on the season's last rounds — final cuts taken low, leaves gathered off the lawns, drifts of maple pulled back from the foundations and walks. Through summer the work is weekly and plain: mow, trim, border, sweep off, move on. Lawns down in the Middlesex valley grow strong on lake-warmed air well past the point where the higher farms have quit. Leaving a property clean ahead of the snow is a fine way to close out a year. Middlesex, Naples, Rushville, Branchport, Potter and Canandaigua.