Fog comes off the coves at the north end of Lake Lanier before sunup and hangs in the yards until the light finds it. That is the hour North Lanier Lawn Maintenance likes best — dew still beaded on the blades, the first pass of the mower drawing one clean stripe across the wet green. They cut, edge the walks, run the string trimmer along fence lines and dock paths, then blow every clipping back off the drive so a place reads finished from the road. Hall County grass pushes hard through the humid middle of summer and eases off in fall, and the route follows it week to week. By evening the water lies flat below the bank and the lawns above it sit just as level.