November is when Austin's canopy finally admits it's autumn: cedar elms go butter-yellow, pecans rattle down onto the sidewalks, and the squirrels work double shifts. Under all that shade, lawns take a beating, with fallen leaves smothering the grass, husks littering the turf and growth coming in thin wherever the sun barely reaches. Ted's Trees looks after the lawn beneath the branches, mowing around trunks and surface roots, trimming close where a mower can't fit, and clearing the seasonal drop so the grass can breathe. This is a city that still honors the Treaty Oak, a centuries-old live oak on Baylor Street west of downtown, and people here know that trees and lawns share the same ground. A yard where both look cared for is a yard worth pulling up a chair in.