For two weeks every April, East Cobb turns yellow — pine pollen on the windshields, on the mailbox, drifting in the gutters along Johnson Ferry Road. Crawford Landscaping works straight through it, because that is also when the grass wakes up and a lawn either gets ahead of the year or spends the summer catching up. Mowing and edging set the rhythm; trimming, bed cleanup and mulch fill in around it, and shrubs get shaped before they run past the windows. Once the oaks and sweetgums start dropping in November, leaf removal takes over until the yard is bare and even again. There is quiet pride in handing back a property that looks deliberate — every line where somebody meant to put it.