Down along Butternut Creek the ballfields at Meeks Park stay green late into the evening, and that is the mark a mountain-town yard gets measured against. C & D Landscaping Services, LLC keeps Blairsville lawns to it: mowing, trimming around posts and fence lines, edging the walks, mulch pulled back neat at the bed lines. Summer thunder builds over the ridges most afternoons here, so the work starts early and the cut is finished before the sky opens. Fall turns the same route into leaf work — hardwood drop off the slopes, raked and hauled until the turf can breathe again. It is plain work, and the yards show it from the road.