Pekin plants marigolds by the thousand, and every September the town puts them on like a coat for the festival. Bradleys Mow-N-Trim works the streets those beds line — mowing, trimming, edging, keeping the green half of the picture from going shaggy while the orange half does its work. A string trimmer around one mailbox post is nothing; twenty of them down a block is what attention looks like from the road. The clippings get cleared, the walk gets swept, and the yard settles back into quiet. Late September, beds blazing and lawns cut low, is when this place looks most like itself.