September in Little Britain smells like cut grass and dry hedgerow, and the light coming across from Stewart State Forest turns gold an hour earlier every week. Speranza Landscaping works straight through that turn — mowing as the growth slows, cutting back the season's overreach, edging the walks that summer has blurred, and taking leaves off as they fall instead of letting them pile into one great heap. Autumn cleanups run late in this part of Orange County; the oaks hold on stubbornly and there is always one more pass to make. Then April arrives, the yard has to be opened up again, and the whole rotation starts over from the top. Keeping a New Windsor property looking tended is never one grand job — it is a hundred small ones taken in order.