Hortense is a scattering of houses in the pines where the Little Satilla winds through Brantley County, quiet except for the train. Impact Lawn Maintenance runs mowers through that country most of the year, since grass down here hardly takes a break. The borders get cut back where lawn runs into the drive, the trimmer handles fence corners and ditch banks, and whatever lands on the pavement is blown back into the yard. Storm season scatters limbs and litter, and clearing it belongs to the same visit. Sandy soil, high pines and level grass underneath — that is what a place here looks like when it is kept.