Thomasville holds its heat in the brick a long time, and the light that leaves Broad Street at the end of the day slides on into the yards on the blocks just behind it. Stephenson's Exterior Maintenance, LLC works those yards — mowing, edging along walks and fence lines, string trimming the corners a mower can't reach, then blowing the drive clean so nothing is left but the cut. In a Thomas County July the grass grows like it has somewhere to be, which makes upkeep a weekly promise instead of a one-time errand. The reward is in the last pass: a straight line where turf meets curb, a hedge squared back off the porch rail, a house that reads as looked-after from the sidewalk. When the season turns and the beds go quiet, the work becomes leaves and mulch, pulled back into place before the cool mornings settle over Thomas County. Exterior maintenance in the plainest sense — the outside of a home, kept.