October runs gold along the Old Croton Aqueduct trail above Ossining, and the leaves come down faster than anybody plans for. Santini's Landscape works that turn of the year: mowing while the grass is still growing, then leaf cleanups that take a yard back from the drifts and haul the piles off before the first hard rain packs them into the turf. There is genuine pleasure in a property that looks swept — beds bare, edges crisp, the whole lawn breathing again under a low sun. Once the cold sets its teeth in, the work shifts to snow removal: plowing, shoveling out the walks, salting the path so a doorstep stays a doorstep. The crew stays close to home, in Ossining and the neighboring towns.