Jonesboro comes awake slowly on a summer morning, the freight line humming south past the depot before the heat has made up its mind. That is the hour Smith and Son's Hedges and Lawn Service works best — shears in hand, dew still beading on the boxwood, the first clean line pressed into a hedge that went shaggy through a week of rain. A yard here is Bermuda grass and red clay and whatever the crape myrtles decide to shed, so keeping it sharp means mowing, edging and trimming on a rhythm the grass can feel. They cover Jonesboro and the towns leaning against it — Riverdale, Morrow, Lovejoy — and leave behind squared hedges, tight corners and walkways blown clean. It is plain work done with care, and you can read it from the street without slowing down.