In January the Suwanee lawns go the color of straw, and every shape the eye once forgave shows plain — a ragged bed line, a walk half-swallowed by turf. Xclusive Cutz Lawn Care likes that honest light. Down along the water at Sims Lake Park the crepe myrtles stand stripped to cinnamon bark, and the town looks like a drawing of itself: all outline, no fill. That is the season for edging drives and beds, trimming back whatever crowds a fence, cutting a yard down to its own clear border so spring has something square to grow into. Then the green climbs the hills off Suwanee Dam Road and the mowing starts again, week on week, each pass laid neatly beside the last. What they leave behind is a lawn with a definite line — the kind you can read from the mailbox.