Morning on this side of Hall County starts with fog sitting low in the coves of Lake Lanier, burning off about the time the first mower fires. Alexander Lawn Care cuts, trims and edges the yards that run down toward the water, where the ground rolls and no two lots fall away the same way. Each pass gets set against the last so the stripes run true, and the trimmer cleans what a deck cannot reach — fence lines, mailbox posts, the base of every pine. By afternoon the walks are blown clear and the yard is handed back quiet.