Off Griswold Street the blocks run close together, narrow lots with back gates and old chain-link, and a summer evening there smells like warm asphalt cooling down. Big Brother Lawn Services works those in-town yards — the small square out front, the shaded strip along the garage, the sliver behind the fence that most equipment can't reach. Mowing, string trimming, edging along the walk, and the cleanups that clear a season's worth of leaves and clippings: it is simple work done all the way to the corners. The reward is the look of a block where one house sits up a little straighter than it did that morning. Neighbors notice, and that is most of the point.