First light in Howard slides in low over the pine tops and lays a long gold stripe across the yard. That is when A&C lawn mowing services likes to begin — dew still sitting on the blades, red clay still cool underfoot, the mower cutting a line that will hold all week. Southwest Arkansas grass grows hard once the humidity settles in, so the job is patience and rhythm: mow, edge, trim the fence line, blow the drive back to bare concrete. By the time the cicadas wind up in the afternoon heat, the lawn looks like somebody loves it. That is the whole point of the morning.