Summer afternoons in Screven arrive with a thunderhead building somewhere off toward the Altamaha, and anyone who works outdoors here learns to read that sky. First Choice Lawn and Garden LLC plans the route around it — mowing and string trimming through the bright part of the day, blowing the clippings off the walk before the first fat drops hit the pavement along US 301. Rain in this country makes grass grow like it has somewhere to be, so the long green months keep their own insistent rhythm. When fall finally slows things down, the rounds turn to raking pine straw and hauling a yard back into order. Either season, the finish is the same: straight lines, tidy edges, a place that looks looked-after.