Spring arrives in Elberton as yellow — pine pollen on the porch rails, dogwood white along the creek bottoms toward Beaverdam. Everything grows at once, and Manley lawn service meets it with mowing, edging and trimming set to a weekly pace so no yard gets away from the people who live in it. That first real cut of the season is a small transformation: shaggy to sharp in an afternoon, the lines suddenly legible again. The work carries across Elberton's older streets and the newer places just past the city limits. It is simple, honest upkeep, and it makes a house look glad to be lived in.