Franklin's Main Street runs a straight line of white clapboard and old brick with the Ouleout Creek working along below it. Mowing follows the grade here, the flat yards near the water first, then the ones that climb toward the ridge and finish the day in slanted light. The routine is simple and unhurried: cut, trim the walls and posts, edge the walks, sweep the clippings off the sidewalk. The first cleanup of the year clears what a Delaware County winter left behind, and the last one takes the maples down off the grass. A village comes to look cared for one lawn at a time, and it adds up.