By mid-afternoon in July, west Georgia heat stands perfectly still over the Franklin square, and the only breeze in town is the one a mower makes. Franklin's Professional Lawn Care LLC keeps moving through it — cutting, string trimming around fence posts and mailboxes, running a hard edge, then clearing the walks before the storm clouds stack up over the Alabama line. Grass climbs fast in this clay, and the whole job is showing up week after week so it never gets ahead of anybody. When the rain blows through and the yard turns bright again, the cut lines are still exactly where they were laid. That is the aim here: a Franklin yard that looks looked-after on an ordinary Tuesday, not just the day before company comes.