Evening comes gently to the wiregrass country around Baxley, heat easing off the sand roads while the pines go black against an orange sky. T & M Land and Brush Management LLC mows the wide, open lots of Appling County — the kind of ground that needs a real machine and a straight line to look right. Grass that has run tall gets brought back to an even, walkable surface; from there it is a steady cut, trimmed borders and edges held where they belong. Clearing the drive with a blower is the last thing done, because the approach to a place is what people take in first. Down here the growing season stretches nearly the whole way around, and the work stretches with it.