April in Erlton announces itself as a smell more than a sight — cut grass on a Tuesday, the first of the year, the whole neighborhood suddenly awake. Lawn cutting services does the plain and necessary thing on streets like these: mowing on a schedule, edging along the walk, trimming the fence line and the mailbox post, clearing the clippings off the drive before leaving. The yards here are modest and square, and they look wonderful when they're kept, which is most of the argument for keeping them. From the first cut of spring to the last one before the leaves come down, it is the same simple visit, made on time. Grass gets tall, somebody comes, and the street looks right again.