On a Saturday morning the lot by the Main Street depot fills with tents and tomatoes, and half of Downers Grove walks there past somebody's front yard. Quality Cut Landscape Service works those blocks on a weekly schedule — mowing, string trimming, edging where turf meets sidewalk, and blowing the clippings back off the concrete. It is the edge people register without knowing they registered it: the clean line that says a place is looked after. Spring opens with a cleanup and autumn closes with leaves, which drop late and thick under the village's old trees. In between, it's the same route on the same day, week after week.