The old part of Alpharetta sits high on a ridge, the kind of ground where a hard rain has to choose which way to run. Alpharetta Lawn Service keeps the yards below that ridge in order — weekly mowing, edges cut clean along drives and walks, trimming around posts and mailboxes, clippings blown back onto the turf where they belong. On Saturday mornings the market fills the lot downtown and the whole block smells of cut grass and market produce. That is the season this work lives for: fescue holding on in the shade, bermuda running in the sun, both held to one even height. When autumn arrives in earnest the same trucks come back with blowers and haul the fall away.