Dalton summers come up humid off the valley floor and break most afternoons into thunder, and everything green in town takes the rain as an invitation. TK Bonds Lawn Care LLC follows that growth around — the flat lots down among the mill blocks, the sloped yards climbing toward the ridge, fence lines trimmed out by hand, sidewalks edged where they run past old brick. A washed-out afternoon shifts the route; the week still closes with every yard on the list cut. There's a plain kind of pride in pulling away from a property with the grass level and even in the low sun. Dalton and the communities around it — Rocky Face, Resaca, Tunnel Hill.