August in Carbondale belongs to arrivals — moving trucks on the side streets, porches filling up, whole blocks near campus waking back into use after a slow summer. Kash Money landscaping and tree service mows through that season, yard after small yard, catching the grass that got away during the heat. The trimmer works the steps, the porch skirting and the alley fence; the blower puts the walk back to bare concrete. Edges get recut where sod has crept out over the sidewalk, so a yard has a shape again. A whole street can change character in an afternoon, and it does.