There is a particular pleasure in driving your own town and knowing which yards you keep. Hometown Lawn Maintenance works the streets below Bradford's downtown and the roads out toward Custer City the same way all year — mowers and trimmers from the first flush of green through the last leaf, plow and shovel and salt once winter takes the schedule over. Small lots, short driveways, walks that have to be safe for people leaving in the dark: the details are what people actually notice. Clearing bookends the year, once when the snow lets go and once when the maples do. Same trucks, same blocks, whatever the sky is doing.