April in Emerson arrives with redbud and dogwood lit up along the ridges, and the ground finally soft enough to work. That is the season Faith Family Lawncare and Landscaping lives for — the morning after a warm rain, when a bed can be re-cut with one clean sweep of the spade and the soil turns dark and willing. They mow and trim, then do the slower part: shaping shrubs, laying pine straw and mulch, planting and building out beds until a yard has shape as well as green. North Georgia will grow anything you ask it to, and it will grow plenty you didn't; the craft is telling one from the other, week after week. By evening the beds hold a crisp brown line against new grass, and the whole place looks cared for from the road.