By noon in July the Meansville air goes still and the cicadas take over the pines along the Zebulon road. Wimbush Lawn Care is out in it anyway — deck down, line trimmer over the shoulder, working the shaded side of the yard before the sun comes all the way around. Out here in peach-and-pine country the lots run long, and a good pass means walking the ditch banks and the fence corners the mower can't reach. Then the edger, then the blower, and the walk is left bare. A yard finished at the hottest hour of a Pike County afternoon has a particular kind of pride in it.