After a spring rain the red ground in northeast Bleckley smells like iron, and the new grass comes on so fast you can nearly watch it happen. Elite Hydroseed and Erosion Control tends lawns through that surge — mowing, edging, string trimming, and carrying the cuttings off the drives and walks. A young lawn knitting itself across a thin spot is one of the better things to look at in April, and an even cut is how it thickens. Around Cochran the properties run from town lots to long farm frontage, and each one wants its own rhythm. Learning that rhythm, yard by yard, is the craft of it.