February is the honest month in Paulding County. The bermuda lies tan and dormant, the hardwoods stand bare enough to see through, and every bed that was hidden under summer growth is suddenly on full display. That is when Grassbeards Landscaping LLC does some of its most useful work — cutting back and pruning, clearing beds down clean, laying fresh pine straw and mulch, and taking the first low cut of the year once the ground firms up. Pine straw over dark soil under bare dogwoods is a plain kind of beautiful, and it sets the whole spring up. From Hiram toward Dallas and out the Rockmart highway, the winter list turns into the spring result.