The road out toward Number Four runs through hardwoods that go copper and gold by the last week of September, and around Watson the yards fill with leaves faster than anybody plans for. Watson's Outdoor Services carries the whole arc of the growing year and closes it out properly — regular mowing all summer, string-trimming the fence lines, edging, mulch in the beds, then the fall cleanup that clears leaf and stem and puts a lawn to bed. Up here a property is half yard and half woods-edge, and keeping the line between them crisp is most of the work. There is a good cold clarity to an October afternoon with the raking finished and the grass showing green again. Whatever comes down after that lands on ground that was ready for it.