South of town the road bends toward Chickamauga and the creek bottoms where the old mills stood, and yards down that way hold their moisture long into the morning. Diaz Lawn Care & Landscaping times a route around that, cutting once the grass is dry enough to leave a clean stripe instead of a smear. The work is mowing and trimming week to week, with landscaping in between — borders re-cut and mulched, shrubs brought back into shape, clippings carried off rather than left to mat. There is honest pleasure in the final pass, when the pattern lines up and the beds read straight from the porch. Green is easy to grow in this valley and hard to keep tidy; tidy is the craft.