The Jones County courthouse sits square in the middle of Gray with the whole town turning around it, and on a June afternoon the heat comes up off Highway 129 in waves. Greenview lawn and landscape mows through it — deck spinning, the smell of cut Bermuda following the trailer from one street to the next. Mowing, edging, trimming and cleanup, week in and week out, so no yard in the rotation ever gets away from itself. Piedmont clay holds water and then bakes hard, and a lawn kept on rhythm handles both better than one cut whenever somebody remembers. Gray is the hub, with Haddock, Clinton, Round Oak and north Macon on the route.