Neptune City is not quite a square mile. You can walk the whole borough in an afternoon and come to know most of the yards by their hedges. Mia's landscaping works at that scale, hands in the beds as often as hands on the mower: cutting, edging, trimming, weeding and tidying the borders that frame a small lawn. September is the town's kindest month, cool mornings and grass that has finally stopped racing. Detail shows most in a little yard, where every corner is visible from the sidewalk, and that is exactly where the attention goes, week after week.