By two o'clock on a July afternoon the thunderheads are already stacking up west of Bowdon, out past the Alabama line, and there is a race on. CCs Lawncare reads that sky for a living: take the open, sun-baked yards first, hold the shaded ones for after the rain moves through, keep the blades turning. Bermuda in this heat grows like it means something, so weekly mowing, string trimming around fence posts and mailboxes, and a clean blow-off of the driveway are the whole of the job — done right, then done again seven days later. Summer here is loud with cicadas and short on cool hours, and this crew claims the early ones. What is left when the truck pulls away is a yard somebody clearly looked after.