US 41 runs the length of Sparks, past pecan groves that throw the only real shade for a mile. Mason’s Yard Care LLC keeps the lawns along it — mowing, edging, trimming, blowing walks clean and hauling off whatever falls. South Georgia afternoons in late summer are slow and bright, and the work moves to the shaded side of the house when it can. Sandy Cook County ground grows a fine tough turf if it is cut on time and never too close. Left even and edged, a yard out here manages to look cool even when nothing else is.