Down where the land drops toward Hallam Lake the mornings are still, herons stand in the shallows, and sound carries a long way — which is a fair description of how this work gets done, too. Nakagawa's House Maintenance keeps to small, attentive tasks on a homeowner's ground: the lawn mowed at an even height, the edges cut clean, the trimming done close and careful where a machine would be clumsy. Twice a year the property gets emptied out properly, winter's litter in spring and the leaf fall before the cold sets. It is unhurried work, and that is the method rather than the pace. What you notice afterward is not any one thing but the absence of loose ends — a yard that looks looked-after.