By October the Dome stands over Pownal in full color and the light comes in sideways all afternoon. Lafaro Landscaping spends those weeks on the season's last honest rounds — final mowings, cutting back what is finished, and moving leaves off lawns before the weather locks them down. Earlier in the year those same yards get the steady round of the growing months: cut, edge, tidy, repeat. There is something plainly good about a lawn raked bare beneath bare maples, waiting out the cold in order. Spring comes up this valley soon enough, and the grass will be ready for it.