Rottenwood Creek slides quiet under Terrell Mill Road, and after a spring rain you can smell the wet pine and cut grass together all the way up the hill. Clear Creek Landscaping does its best work in that window — the ground soft, the beds ready to be edged and mulched, the first full mow of the year putting a shape back on a property. Through the season it is mowing, trimming, edging and blow-down, with shrubs pruned and beds kept clean so nothing creeps over the border. Marietta hands out ninety-degree Julys and long leafy Novembers, and both get met on schedule rather than after the fact. What is left behind is simple to see from the road: straight lines, clean corners, a yard sitting right.