Dew comes up silver on Mount Pleasant lawns before seven and burns off by nine — that narrow window is when the grass cuts cleanest. Earth-Keepers Property Maintenance holds a weekly rhythm on properties around town: mowing, trimming, edging the walks and clearing beds in spring and again when the leaves let go. In a college town yards change hands often, and a place kept on a schedule announces itself halfway down the block. There is a quiet pride in arriving the same day every week, whether the grass badly needed it or barely did. By late October the work is mostly leaves, and after the last pass a lawn can go into the cold looking like it was put to bed on purpose.