Martinez runs green and shaded, its streets laid in under loblolly pine on the ground between Augusta and the Savannah River. A.G. Lawn Services keeps those yards on schedule with mowing, edging along curb and walk, string trimming the fence lines, blowing the drives clean, and clearing pine straw and leaves when fall loads them down. Columbia County summers are long and heavy with humidity, and Bermuda and centipede grow fast enough here to ask for a real rhythm rather than the occasional visit. Beds get cut back and mulched so the front of a house reads sharp from the street. There is a particular pleasure in one curbside edge running clean the whole length of a block.