In the old streets off Washington and Sixth the maples close overhead in July, and the lawns underneath grow in patches of sun and shade that want different things from the same yard. Reliable Lawn Service arrives the same day each week and leaves the block a little squarer than it found it — mowing at a height the shade can live with, trimming around trunks and fence lines, edging the sidewalk seam, sweeping the clippings off the walk. Spring cleanup pulls road grit and matted leaf litter out of the beds; autumn takes the leaves away before they smother anything. Fertilizing and weed treatment fill in the rest of the calendar. It is a plain kind of work, and the entire point is that the yard simply stays right without anybody having to arrange it.