By two o'clock on a July afternoon in McDuffie County the thunderheads are already stacking up west of town, and the work turns into a race against the first fat drops. Hawkins Landscape Solutions mows, edges and string-trims through that heat, then blows the clippings off the walks before the rain can paste them down. Georgia summer grass grows fast enough to need the visit every single week, and skipping one shows immediately. Shrubs get shaped, beds get cleared, and the yard comes out the far side of the storm looking like the storm never crossed it. Thomson and its neighbors — Harlem, Dearing, Warrenton — make up the round.