October takes the piers out of Geneva Lake section by section, and the shoreline goes bare and blue and honest again. Sheldon Landscape works that turn of the year hard — leaves off lawns and beds, the last cuts made, everything squared before the ground locks up. When it does, the job changes shape: plowing, drives cleared, walks opened after each storm a southern Wisconsin winter sends through. Come spring the mowers roll back out, the beds get their edges recut, and the whole round starts over. A property handled by one outfit all year never has to be explained twice.