A February morning in Bacon County will silver the bahia and be gone by nine, and that short cold is all the rest a South Georgia lawn gets. Southeastern Maintenance uses those weeks for the heavy work — raking out pine straw, clearing leaves and storm-dropped limbs, cutting back overgrown shrubs so spring has somewhere to arrive. Then the green comes up fast along the branches that feed Big Satilla Creek, and the schedule turns to mowing, edging, and trimming, week after week, straight through the heat. There is real satisfaction in pulling into a yard that has gone shaggy and leaving it squared away: beds defined, walk swept, the whole place looking like somebody is paying attention. That route runs from Alma out to Surrency and Douglas and the farm lanes in between.