Kingston sits where the railroad and the Etowah River both slow down — a short grid of streets in Bartow County with pasture, hayfield and pine standing just past the last mailbox. Late in the afternoon, when the light turns the color of cut hay, a finished yard here holds its lines all the way to the fence line. Complete Lawn Service does the mowing, the trimming around posts and foundations, the edging that gives a walk its clean shoulder, and the blow-down that leaves nothing loose on the concrete. It is ordinary work carried all the way into the corners, and the corners are exactly what a neighbor notices from the road. Grass grows most of the year in this stretch of northwest Georgia, and the mowers keep pace with it in Kingston and the towns close around.