September in Washingtonville smells faintly of crushed fruit, the vineyard rows going gold on the slopes above the old stone cellars at Brotherhood. MLN L&Landscaping works the lawns around town in that light, when the grass slows and every cut lasts longer and looks better for it. Fall mowing is patient work: watching growth taper, trimming around walls and posts, edging the walks so the shape of the yard holds through the leaves. A lawn brought properly into autumn is a lawn that starts easy in spring. Around here, that kind of forward thinking is just how the season is handled.