South Georgia mornings start flat and wide, fog lying low in the fields until the sun burns through it around eight. ASC Lawn Service is out in that hour around Spence, mowing Bermuda while it is still cool enough to enjoy the smell of it, edging walks, trimming close around posts and pecan trunks. Heat is not a rumor here by ten o'clock, so the day is built to stay ahead of it. Grass cut at the right height holds its moisture through the long afternoons, and that is most of the trick in this country. Tight borders, cleared drives, and the shade of the pecans doing the rest.