First light around Greenville comes up out of the pines, and the dew sits heavy on the grass until the mowers get to it. De La Cruz Landscaping Service starts early on the side streets and out along the county roads — cutting, edging, shaping shrubs and hedges, laying fresh mulch where beds have gone thin over the winter. Spring here is dogwood and pollen and a green that seems to arrive overnight, and it asks for steady hands week after week. By the time the heat stands up in the afternoon the route is behind them: yards trim, beds dark, driveway edges cut to a line. That is the whole of the work, and it shows from the road.