October turns the ridge above Peekskill the color of banked coals, and the wind coming off Blue Mountain sends the first real drift of leaves across every lawn in town. Utopia Landscapes LLC works into that stretch, mowing as long as the grass still asks for it, then raking and hauling leaves off the turf before the mats set and the rain glues them down. Through the warm months it is the weekly round instead — cut, trim, edge along the walks and beds until a yard reads sharp from the curb. There is a plain pleasure in the last pass of the year: mower shut off, driveway blown clean, the lawn put to bed under a low autumn sun. Lawn care for Peekskill and the towns just up the hill and across the brook.