Down in the Alcovy bottoms outside Jersey, the fog lies on the water until midmorning and lifts off the pasture in long white sheets. C & G Landscaping is usually rolling before it clears, mowing and trimming yards across this thin-populated corner of Walton County where the houses sit far apart and the grass runs right up to the treeline. Bottomland ground stays soft and grows heavy; the higher lots dry out and thin. Reading which is which — and cutting accordingly — is what keeps a lawn even instead of striped with damage. By the time the fog is gone, the first yards of the day are already sitting level, edged and swept clean.