By noon in high summer the side streets of Bridgeton run in stripes — deep shade beneath old sycamores, hard sun in the gaps between — and grass grows differently in each. Shalon lawn care & Landscaping LLC reads that as it goes, letting the shaded stretches stand a touch taller and holding the sunny middle even, so the lawn finishes as one color instead of three. Trimming around posts and hydrants, cutting the border at the walk, shaping beds and laying mulch: the small work that decides whether a yard looks kept or merely cut. Cleanups come at either end of the year, when a property needs emptying before it needs mowing. The measure of a good afternoon is a lawn that looks as though nobody had to labor over it at all.