Morning in Clarkesville starts low and white, fog lying in the river bends until the sun clears the ridge and lifts it off. That is the hour this lawn care outfit likes best, when the grass is still cool and the mower's first pass lays a clean stripe across a yard that will be gold by afternoon. The work is steady and plain: mowing, edging, string trimming, and clearing every clipping off the walk, week after week through a north Georgia growing season that runs long and green. Come autumn the poplars let go all at once and the leaf clearing begins; come spring the mulch goes down dark against new dogwood. What it adds up to is worth having — a yard with a crisp edge, a drive swept clean, a place that looks cared for from the road.