At dusk the lights of Atlantic City come up across the inlet and the Brigantine side goes soft and blue behind the dune line. J & M Landscaping keeps the lawns on those blocks — mowing on a steady turn through the season, edging drives and walks, trimming where fence and hedge crowd in on the grass. There is a pride in the last pass of the day, walking back along a yard that finally sits flat and even under the porch light. Island lots are small and public and looked at constantly; they either hold up or they don't. These hold up.