Late afternoon on the Cabot Street side of Beverly, the brick gives back the day's heat and the small front yards behind the sidewalks slip into shadow first. Elite Landscaping keeps those in-town lawns going, mowing tight around fences and hydrants, trimming, edging clean against the concrete, and clearing the yard in spring and fall. A city lot leaves no room for a sloppy line; every side of it is visible from a public sidewalk. That is the fun of it, honestly, turning a twenty-by-thirty patch of grass into something that looks deliberate. Come closing time the walks are swept, the edge is straight, and the block looks a little better than it did at lunch.