Fog settles low in the hollows below the Cohutta Mountains most mornings, and it burns off about the time the first mower has shaken off its dew. C&E Lawn and Landscape works the north Murray County yards where the ground never quite lies flat — a slope here, a rock ledge there, grass that comes on fast after mountain rain. Mowing, string trimming and edging are done to a line you can read from the road, and the clippings get blown back off the drive before the tailgate goes up. Mulch goes down dark around the shrubs, bed lines are recut, and the leaves come off the turf when the hardwoods above town begin letting go. It is plain work done in the shadow of big country, and it leaves a yard looking cared for.