Late winter in Rayle is bare pecan limbs and red clay, the Wilkes County pastures waiting on the first green they will show in weeks. Cape family landscaping llc uses that stretch for clearing work, gathering limbs and leaf litter, cutting back whatever the cold knocked down, getting yards ready before growth starts. Then the season swings and the mowing begins in earnest, with edges cut true along every walk and drive. Grass in this clay does as it pleases unless somebody holds a schedule on it, so the schedule is the service. A yard here ought to look like the house has someone in it, and that is the standard each visit is measured against.