The last hour of daylight is the one worth waiting for out on the hillside lots along Highway 140, when shadows run long across the grass and every ridge and dip in the ground shows itself. Wiley's Top Notch Lawn Care uses that light to check the day's work — the height even across the slope, the edge held tight to the asphalt, the trim line clean around each tree ring and post. Mowing, edging, trimming and a full blow-off are the whole of it, done the same way whether anyone is home to watch. Adairsville summers stretch late and warm, and the cicadas keep going long after the equipment goes quiet. A yard that still looks sharp at sundown is the point of all of it.