The best hour to mow a Montevallo lawn in July is the one right after the dew burns off and before the air turns to soup. Payne In The Grass takes that hour seriously — first pass laid straight down the long side of the yard, trimmer around the posts and the AC unit, edger opening a clean seam beside the drive. Summer pushes grass hard in this county, and a yard left a week too long shows every day of it; kept on schedule, the same yard just looks easy. Fresh clippings hanging in the air over a shaded street is one of the small good things about a Shelby County July. The name is a joke; the straight lines are not.