North of McRae the Little Ocmulgee runs dark and slow under pines, and the mornings there come up with mist off the water and the first birds arguing. McRae Landscape starts early on the town's yards — mowing, edging along walks and curbs, trimming in around porch piers and fence corners. Telfair County summers are long and generous to grass, so the mowing runs deep into October before it eases. When the pine straw drops it comes off the turf and out of the beds instead of being left to smother. It matters, on the courthouse side of town, that a yard looks tended every single week.