October is Red Hook's loudest month — the Sawkill running under the road, the maples letting go all at once, and every lawn in the township buried again by Tuesday. Cotter Landscape Management works that ground the whole year round: mowing through summer, edging and bed work in between, and hauling the leaves off when the trees finally give up. A managed property does not have emergencies, it has a rhythm, and the rhythm is what keeps a place looking settled. There is a deep, unhurried pride in walking off a job at dusk with the lawn cut, the borders clear and the drive swept bare. Then November comes, the light goes low over the orchards, and the ground is put away until spring.