Between Homer and Maysville the road runs past pasture, poultry houses, and yards that stretch farther back than they look from the highway. S.E Lawncare works that ground through the long green middle of the year — mowing wide lawns, trimming around fence posts and mailboxes, edging where gravel gives way to grass. Summer in Banks County comes on humid, the grass jumping after every evening storm, and the mower earns its week. There is a rhythm to cutting a big yard well: lines stay parallel, corners stay square, nothing gets left at the far fence. Then the blower runs, and the drive looks like nobody was ever there but the work.