Bloomfield Avenue runs the length of Montclair like a spine, and the streets branching off it hold some of the oldest lawns in Essex County. Mc Hale's Landscaping & Design works those side streets — the mowing, the trimming, the mulch beds refreshed before the maples leaf out and drop the yards into shade. There is a particular satisfaction in the last pass of the day, when the light goes long over Watchung Plaza and every blade is running the same direction. Grass here bolts in a wet June and slows to almost nothing by late August, so the schedule bends to the weather rather than the calendar. What stays constant is the finish: tidy borders, walks blown clean, a property that reads as cared for from the curb.