Down the narrow lanes off Higgins Beach, where shingled cottages sit close together and dune grass leans over the sandy shoulders of the road, the yards run right up to the salt air. Higgins Beach Lawn Care tends those lawns through Scarborough's coastal summers, the mower tracing even rows between the houses and the clippings raked clean before the afternoon breeze lifts off the marsh. There is a plain, honest pleasure in a green kept trim against the grit of a beach town, in a strip of grass that holds its color while the surf works the shore a block away. Where Scarborough's streets bend toward the water and the light comes long and low across the flats, the work leaves each yard cut, settled, and ready for the next warm day.