In Nutley the day starts with a sound before it starts with a light — a mower turning over somewhere off Franklin Avenue while the pavement is still cool. Brancato Landscaping Contractor works the side streets that step down from that main run, where front lawns are measured in strides rather than acres and every edge is visible from the sidewalk. Mowing, trimming and edging here are close work, done between hedges and porch steps, and the payoff is a lawn that reads clean all the way to the curb. Come autumn the same yards fill in with leaves and get cleared again, block by block. Small township, careful lines.