Late summer around Taylors Mills is all cicada noise and thunderheads stacking up somewhere off to the west, and the grass grows like it knows the season is short. Duke's Lawn Services Inc keeps Manalapan yards in hand through that stretch — cutting on schedule, trimming what a mower cannot reach, clearing the clippings off the drive until the pavement is dark and clean again. There is a straightforwardness to lawn care that is easy to respect: the whole result is visible from the curb. Spring cleanups take the winter debris out, autumn ones catch the leaves before they turn to mat. The same yards, week after week, until the township goes quiet for the year.