Cornelia keeps a giant red apple down by the depot, and the orchards on the ridges above town make good on it every fall. Kilgore Lawn Services works those foothill yards where the ground tilts and the grass grows up in cool mountain air, mowing across the slope and cutting close around steps and stone. Mornings start with fog pooled in the low places and burn off by nine. Leaf drop in Habersham County is long and heavy under the hardwoods, and hauling it away opens a yard right back up. Cornelia, Demorest, Baldwin, Mount Airy, and Clarkesville stay on the calendar.