Albany turns green earlier than most of Georgia. By the time the azaleas open along the streets running out toward Radium Springs, the centipede is already asking for its first cut of the year, and Bloom Turf Management is out with the deck set low and the passes running straight. Mowing, trimming, edging and the blower work that makes a yard look finished — that is the whole of it, repeated week after week from the first warm rain to the last. There is a particular satisfaction in the moment a shaggy Dougherty County lawn becomes a lawn again: the edge crisp against the walk, the drive bare, the whole place breathing. Homes and businesses around Albany, Putney and Leesburg get that same treatment on a steady rotation.