The Satilla runs black and slow not far from Shawnee, tea-colored under the cypress, and in July the whole county feels like it is breathing through a warm cloth. Neal's Lawn Services LLC works right through the middle of that — mowing, edging and trimming yards that grow faster now than at any other point in the year. Centipede and Bahia both want a careful hand; cut them right and they carry their color well into the fall. Walks and drives are cleared of clippings, fence lines get trimmed back, and beds have their edges recut where summer rain has blurred them. Late in the day, when the light goes gold through the pines, the whole yard reads as one clean piece of ground.