Saturday morning in the East Bluff, and the alleys behind the two-flats are wide awake — gates open, dogs at the fence, somebody's radio going. D Brown's Lawncare Hauling & More runs those narrow lanes: mowing the small deep back yards, trimming along garage slabs and chain link, edging the front walk, then loading the brush pile and the winter's leftovers that have been waiting by the fence since March. Hauling is half the gift — the grass is cut and the mess leaves with it, instead of sitting at the curb for a month. By afternoon the trailer rides heavy toward the drop and the block breathes easier. On streets built this close together, tidy is a form of neighborliness.