Slabtown's maples throw enough shade that the grass beneath them comes in slow and thin, and every street in the old neighborhoods has a quirk like that. Hometown Lawn Service mows Traverse City yards on that intimate scale — cutting, trimming around porch posts and garden beds, edging the sidewalk, raking out the fall. Knowing which yard stays soggy by the alley and which one bakes on its south side is half of doing it right. A short, even lawn on a hot afternoon, lines running the same way they did last week, reads as care, because it is. Neighborhood work, in the neighborhoods.