Downtown Milan is brick and awning and a handful of blocks you can walk end to end, and the neighborhoods behind it are all small lots and old shade trees. Blaine's Lawn Care, LLC. works that grid — mowing, trimming around porch steps and mailbox posts, edging the sidewalk strips until the concrete shows a clean gray line. Spring starts with a cleanup: winter's litter raked out, the matted grass opened up, everything set for the first real cut. Then comes the weekly cadence from April to the last mow of October, one yard after another. Close-together properties, each one handed back looking like somebody paid attention to it.