By July the Stockton afternoons come on heavy, cicadas going in the box elders and the shade line of a maple the only cool strip on the block. Dreyer Painting works the lawns through all of it — mowing, trimming, edging the concrete so the line between grass and walk is a decision rather than an accident. Small-town blocks reward that care, since every yard is read from the sidewalk by whoever happens past. Late in the day the heat lets go, the light comes sideways down the street, and each straight pass shows in the cut. When the leaves come, they handle those too.