Mornings in Talking Rock come up cool off the creek, with fog caught in the folds of the ridges long after the valleys have cleared. Yards up here are rarely level — a drive climbing hard, a bank of mountain laurel at the property edge, a strip of grass that has to be earned with a trimmer instead of a mower. Triple J Lawn Services works those north Georgia lots with mowing, edging, string trimming and cleanup for homes and cabins around the Talking Rock Creek valley. Autumn is the heavy season, when the ridges turn over and the leaves keep falling for weeks, and clearing matters more than cutting. There is nothing much better than a mountain yard finished on a blue October afternoon.