Newborn is a handful of streets under big trees, close enough to the Alcovy bottoms that the frogs carry to the porch on a warm night. Come May the piedmont hits its stride: everything green at once, the grass gaining an inch between visits, road shoulders needing knocked back every other week. The work is honest and repetitive in the good sense — mow, edge, trim, clear, then a second at the curb to check the lines before loading up. Newton County has old houses with deep front yards, and a deep front yard mowed evenly is a plain, good-looking thing. Doing that, over and over, is the job.