A summer thunderstorm rolls over Douglasville in the afternoon, drops an inch on the Anneewakee Creek bottoms, and by six the light comes back gold with the grass an inch taller out of pure spite. Sonnie's Lawn & Exterior Services works into that window — mowing, edging, trimming, and clearing the clippings and blown-down debris a storm leaves behind. Wet Georgia summers make a yard move fast, and keeping stride with it is its own kind of steadiness. What stays behind is a level cut, a hard edge along the walkway, and a yard ready for whatever the next front brings. Douglasville and the nearby stretches of Lithia Springs, Austell and Winston are the ground covered.