By the time the light goes long over Ellis Pond, Norwood's backyards have cooled and the day's mowing has set into quiet, even rows. Lawn care here is patient work — cutting on a rhythm, edging where turf meets pavement, trimming the corners a mower cannot reach, and clearing the yard out when spring opens and when fall closes it down. A lawn that gets attention every week tells on itself: level color, sharp lines, nothing shaggy at the fence. That is the whole ambition, and it is enough — a Norwood yard that looks like somebody is paying attention, because somebody is.