In Wilkes County the fields run out to the tree line and the clay roads go orange after rain. Walton Family and Services LLC keeps lawns cut through the long piedmont summer around Tignall and out toward Washington — mowing week to week, edging the walks, trimming close to the porch and the fence. Grass comes on strong here in May and does not quit until the nights cool down in the Broad River country. A yard that looks tended from the mailbox is the kind of thing a neighbor notices without being able to say what changed. When the leaves finally come down, they get cleared off, and the lawn rests bare and neat.