Late August in Linden smells like cut grass and warm gravel, and the gardens are at their loudest in the weeks just before they let go. Jims Landscaping & Garden Services keeps both halves in order — mowing, trimming and edging on the one hand, beds weeded, shaped and tended on the other. A border given a visible line changes how a house reads from the road. When the thaw comes, the same hands open the ground back up and clear away what the cold left behind. It is Linden work: the village blocks and the country lots that ring them.