Monroe wakes early around the courthouse square, where the red brick tower keeps time over Broad Street and the pecans throw long shadows across the sidewalks. ATA Turf Care works the Walton County yards that ring that center, mowing, edging, trimming and blowing until a lawn looks deliberate again. Piedmont clay grows grass thick and fast once May arrives, and staying ahead of it is the whole art. There is a particular satisfaction in the edge along a driveway: a dark, exact line that says someone paid attention here. By the time the afternoon heat stacks up over the rooftops, the cut is finished and the grass is standing straight.