Lake Chicot lies alongside Lake Village in one long blue curve, the Mississippi's old channel keeping its shape centuries after the river moved on without it. Delta Lawn Care works the yards that face the water and the ones back behind the levee — mowing, trimming, edging walks and drives, clearing clippings and leaves off the concrete. In this bottomland the soil runs deep and dark and grass takes that as an invitation, so the schedule leans on frequency more than force. Summer evenings arrive slowly here, cypress standing out on the lake, the light going peach across Chicot County. A lawn cut level against water that wide looks like it was always meant to be there.