The old Manchester and Lawrence rail bed runs through Salem as a trail now, straight and level where the trains used to go, with yards backing up to it the whole way. CES Property Service LLC looks after those properties: mowing every week, edges cut clean along drives and walks, mulch refreshed in the beds, trimming where the machines will not fit, and full cleanups in spring and fall. Evening is a good time out here — the light goes long and low across a freshly cut lawn and shows every stripe. Property care is mostly repetition done well, week after week, until a place simply looks tended. That is the part worth taking pride in.