Late August in Bridgewater's hill neighborhoods: the cul-de-sacs are still, the air has weight, and the lawns need cutting whether anyone feels like it or not. This is lawn and landscape work for those streets — mowing week in and week out, edging drives and walkways, trimming fence lines and tree rings, and sweeping the pavement clear before the truck pulls away. Higher ground up here dries first, so the deck comes up in the heat and the grass is left long enough to shade its own roots. Cleanups bracket the season at both ends, clearing what winter left behind and later what the maples send down. A finished lawn on a hot afternoon is a small, plain pleasure, and it is the entire point.