For two weeks every March, Thomas County wears yellow — pine pollen on the porch rail, on the truck hood, on the seat of the mower. Connell Lawn Care opens the season in that dust and stays with it through the long green stretch that follows: mowing, trimming, edging drives and walks, shrubs kept in shape, and the hard surfaces cleared at the end. By June the grass is asking weekly, sometimes sooner after a good rain. Come November the clippings turn to leaves and the work shifts to gathering. Same yard, different chore — the point is that it never goes ragged.