By late August the afternoons here build slowly — heat standing over the flatwoods, a thunderhead assembling off to the south, pecan shade creeping an inch at a time across a front yard. Overholt’s Lawn Care and Landscaping LLC works the cooler ends of those days, cutting ahead of the storm and coming back once everything shoots up again. Trimming around trunks and ditch banks, a firm line down each side of the drive, cuttings blown off the concrete instead of left to bake. There is real satisfaction in leaving a yard composed while the sky overhead is doing something dramatic. Around Abbeville and the little towns nearby, that is the week's work.