Middle-Georgia winter is a short, bright thing — pines dark green against a washed-out sky, red clay showing through where the grass has gone dormant, frost burning off by nine. CKB Landscaping & Angel's Acres Tree Farm likes those weeks for the shaping work: cutting back shrubs, clearing beds, hauling brush, getting properties around Fort Valley set before spring arrives in a hurry. When the warm-season grass comes back in April the mowing starts again and does not let up until Thanksgiving. A landscape is a slow thing; you tend it in the cold months so it can show off in the warm ones. Between the two, a place simply keeps looking cared for.