Winter barely commits this close to the Florida line; February around Steam Mill can hand you a seventy-degree afternoon with pecan limbs still bare against a blue sky. Paper Mill Landscaping LLC uses that stretch for cleanup — leaves and limb litter cleared, beds edged, shrubs cut back, lawns tidied while the Bermuda sleeps. Then the southwest Georgia growing season opens wide and doesn't close until nearly Thanksgiving: mowing, trimming, edging and clearing the drives, week after week. Sandy ground and long heat make grass that grows hard and shows every missed pass. Which is why the last thing done on any yard here is a slow walk around it, looking.