Route 27 through Franklin Park is old road, and the maples along it are older than most of the houses; in the evening they throw long bars of shadow across the front lawns. Franklins landscaping services runs the last cuts of the day in that light, finishing a yard while the traffic thins out and the crickets start up. The work is mowing on a set schedule, edges cut along the drive, hedges kept in shape, beds mulched in spring and raked clean in fall. None of it is exotic, but a lawn that gets the same care every week looks different from one that gets it now and then, and everybody on the block can tell. That difference is reason enough to keep the trailer hitched.