The Rail District along Eton Street has a different texture than the rest of Birmingham — brick, patios, narrow green strips wedged between buildings and pavement. Uptown Turf mows and trims those in-between lawns as readily as the broad front yards north of Maple, edging wherever turf meets concrete and clearing the clippings off the walk. In May the growth is relentless and the mowers run six days out of seven. The work is repetitive by design; the result is a place that looks tended every single week. Birmingham is compact enough that the difference reads from one end of a block to the other.