From September on, fog lies across Cherokee Lake at first light and lifts about the time the first mower fires up. Caleb's Lawn CARE of Thomasville works those cool early hours — waiting out the dew, then mowing, running the fence lines, cutting a line at the drive, and clearing the walks before moving on. South Georgia hands a lawn nine or ten growing months, so the calendar is less about starting and stopping than about keeping pace. Even in the tan weeks after a hard frost there is shaping and cleanup to be done. The measure of a morning is simple here: the yard looks better at ten than it did at seven.