The first week of July the flags go up along the porches around Guyton, and the grass is at its most enthusiastic. Lawn of the Free LLC is a lawn care business that likes a deadline — mowed, trimmed, edged, and blown clear before folks start pulling into the yard for the cookout. Summer here never really eases off, so the schedule is the whole trick: come back before the yard has a chance to argue. There is a plain kind of pride in a cut lawn with heat shimmering above it and everything sitting where it should. Small thing, maybe. It reads all the way from the road.