By one in the afternoon in July, Fayetteville is loud with insects and the heat sits on the pavement like a hand. Greenhopper Lawn Care works straight through it — water in the cooler, mowing and trimming and edging property after property while the cicadas run their long saw up in the pines. Summer in the Georgia Piedmont is the demanding half of the year: growth is relentless, the humidity is total, and a lawn that missed two weeks turns into a project instead of a visit. Keeping to the route is the entire trick. There's something worth standing still for in a yard finished at the hottest hour of the day — edges cut, grass even, nothing left to do but load up and go.