Midsummer in Lanier County is a contest, and the grass has the advantage: rain most afternoons in July, then a solid week of sun. Big Chopper landscaping takes the yards that got away — tall lots knocked down, fence lines cut back, trimming worked in around posts and pump houses, then mowing on a schedule so it never gets there again. There is a real turn in a job like that, the moment a place stops looking abandoned and starts looking kept. Landscaping and cleanup follow, with the pile hauled off so nothing is left but grass and daylight. East Lanier holds a lot of ground like that, waiting on somebody to bring it back.