Echo Bay in October turns a hard bright blue, the light coming low across the water toward Neptune Island, and the lawns above the bay hold their color later than anyone expects. Mike Pasqua Landscaping works right through that season — mowing while the grass still wants it, feeding it for the cold ahead, clearing leaves off the turf every week rather than waiting for one enormous November afternoon. Coastal New Rochelle stays mild a little longer than the ridge does, and a lawn given attention in those weeks comes out of winter well ahead. There's real pleasure in a yard left crisp on a cold afternoon, beds cut clean and every walk blown bare. From the bay inland, that is the standard the work is measured against.