Evening in this corner of Columbia County belongs to the cicadas and to whoever is still out with a trimmer while the light goes amber over Euchee Creek. Summer runs hot and wet, and a lawn can travel from mowed to shaggy in nine days if the storms line up right. Staying ahead of that is the art: cutting on the rhythm the grass sets, working close around mailboxes and beds, and blowing the drive down so the finish shows from the sidewalk. Shrubs get shaped before they crowd the windows; weeds get pulled before they seed. Houses north of Evans sit close enough together that one yard kept well lifts the whole street.