Come October the wind off the Hudson strips the street trees fast, and Watervliet's yards go from green to ankle-deep in about a week. RM Landscaping NY meets that head-on — leaf cleanup, the final mowings, beds cut back and cleared, everything hauled away so the lawn goes into the cold breathing instead of smothered. Earlier in the year it is the regular round: weekly cuts, trimmed fence lines, a crisp edge at the sidewalk, mulch refreshed, shrubs kept to a shape. There is a particular pleasure in a property finished for the season — bare, tidy, ready — with the light gone thin and the river running steel-colored past the end of the block. Then the rakes go away and the city gets quiet for a while.