Late March in the Etowah headwaters country dusts everything — trucks, porches, ponds — with pine pollen, and then one good rain rinses the whole valley clean and green. "Green Works" Lawn Care opens its season in that window around Dahlonega: mowing, trimming, edging, spring cleanups, and mulch laid into beds while the ground is still cool and damp. Grass in these hills comes on fast once it makes up its mind, and the first month largely decides how a yard will carry the summer. The measure of a finished job is the straight edge along the walk and the absence of anything left behind. Steady, on-schedule work — nothing more, nothing less.