January in Cairo is a mild, low-slung month — tan dormant lawns, live oaks that finally get around to dropping their leaves, and a damp wind coming up off the Ochlockonee bottoms. Pro Level Lawn Care spends those cool weeks on the work that pays off later: leaf and debris removal, winter cleanups, bed edging and shrub trimming, clearing the litter off turf that is only sleeping. Warm-season grass this far south greens back faster and far more evenly when it has spent the winter raked open to the light. Mowing picks up again the moment the color does, and the route then runs from spring all the way through a long Georgia autumn. It is plain work, and an open, swept lawn in February is its own quiet kind of promise.