October in Fairfax turns the ridge along Route 104 to rust and gold, and for a few weeks every lawn under it disappears. Noah's Landscaping & Snowplowing LLC handles what that means on the ground: leaf and debris cleanup, the last cuts of the year, landscape work through the green months, then plowing and clearing once the earth goes hard. Between the village and the hill farms the weather can't quite agree with itself, so the work runs on what's actually falling rather than what was called for. There's something plainly good about a yard raked down clean, and about the first plowed drive of a winter. Both are the sort of thing a neighbor notices without saying so.