August comes in loud around Gainesville — cicadas up in the pines by noon, crepe myrtles dropping pink along the drives, heat standing over the pavement. Louis Landscaping and lawn care service works the whole of it: mowing, edging, string trimming, hedge and shrub trimming, bed weeding, mulch and pine straw, and cleanups when the leaves finally come. The grass grows fast in that humidity, and a week between visits is all it takes to see the difference a cut makes. Beds get the sweat too, because a shaped hedge and a fresh bed line carry a yard even in the dog days. When the truck pulls away, the drive is clear and the edge runs true.