Putnam County still runs to pasture in places — fence lines, hay ground, wide yards that keep going well past the mailbox and take real time to cut. Funderburke Lawn Services, LLC works that kind of ground around Eatonton, mowing the open acreage as well as the grass by the porch, trimming out the posts and the mailbox and everywhere a mower deck cannot reach. In the piedmont's warm months the grass never truly pauses, so the route comes back around on a steady week. Cleanups carry off the leaves and limbs a Georgia storm leaves behind. There is a particular satisfaction in stepping back from a big place cut end to end, all one color in the evening light.