By seven in the evening the light in Cochran goes long and copper, laying shadows across the yards from every pine and power pole. Carlos and Son, LLC finishes plenty of days in that light, walking a finished lawn one last time to see what the low sun shows that noon hid. The services are steady ones: mowing on a set rotation, edging, trimming the hard-to-reach margins, and clearing the clippings from the drive. Yards near the Ocmulgee bottoms hold their moisture and grow hard; the ones on the sandy rises need a lighter touch. Reading which is which, week to week, is most of the craft.