Morning comes slow to Hiawassee, spilling over the ridge above Lake Chatuge while the pastures are still holding their dew. Ben's Lawn Care And Tractor Work meets that hour with a mower and a tractor both, because a mountain town asks for both — a tidy yard in close to town, and a rough field out toward Bell Mountain that needs bush-hogging back into shape. Grass grows hard here through the warm months and the ground rolls in every direction, so the work is as much reading a slope as cutting it. There is a real satisfaction in a lawn left level and striped, its edge trimmed clean along the drive, and in a grown-up field opened back up to the light. From Hiawassee out through Young Harris and Blairsville, that is the shape of the day.