Nutley fits into a little more than four square miles, which makes the whole township a neighborhood and puts every lawn close enough to compare over a fence. Fred's Lawn Care moves through it on a Saturday the way a route is meant to be run — up one street, down the next, the mower's stripes laid in the same direction each visit. Trimming around the porch steps and the mailbox post, edging where the driveway meets the grass, blowing the clippings back off the sidewalk before pulling away. Twice a year a bigger cleanup clears the beds and the drifts of leaves piled along the fences. It is ordinary care, repeated, and repetition is what a lawn actually answers to.