Downtown Midland bends around the Circle, and the streets feeding into it are lined with maples big enough to shade an entire block. Hackett Lawn Care mows the lawns underneath them — the thin shaded strips, the sunny front yards that grow like they mean it, and everything between the two. The routine is weekly and unglamorous: cut, trim, edge, blow the walks clean, leave the place tidier than the mower found it. When those same maples let go in October there is raking to do, and a great deal of it. A well-kept yard is a small public gift, and the neighbors see it every day.