First light in Pike County is a quiet thing — dirt roads still damp, pecan trees dripping, Concord's few streets holding their fog a while longer than the fields do. GYC Landscaping Services starts there, mowing yards big enough to see across, trimming out around the pecans and the well house and the mailbox post, edging what pavement there is until the line reads clean. Spring here comes up fast and green and does not wait on anybody, so the mowing gets steady early and stays steady. What the crew leaves behind is a yard with shape to it: even turf, tidy borders, drives swept back to bare. Out where a house sits well off the road, that shape is the first thing anybody sees.