Late-day light in Larkin Township comes in low and sideways, and that is exactly when a freshly cut lawn shows off its stripes. Kirby's lawn care works street by street through the warm months — mowing, trimming around posts and foundations, edging the walk back to a true line, then sweeping the drive clean before leaving. Nothing about it is complicated; it is just done all the way, every visit, until a yard settles into that looked-after look. Kids ride past on bikes over cut grass that smells like the entire summer at once. When the maples let go, the leaves get gathered up and the lawn is put to bed tidy.