North of Toccoa the Chattahoochee National Forest closes in, and the yards up that way never quite forget they were woods first — pine straw drifting at the margins, a poplar limb leaning over the grass. Mountain Woods Services LLC keeps those lawns in hand with mowing, trimming and edging, plus the ongoing business of clearing what the trees drop. Working under a canopy means shifting the cut to the light, taking a little less off where the sun barely reaches. Autumn is the loud season: needles, leaves and sweetgum balls all coming down together, and every pass hauling the yard back out of the forest. What stays with you is the smell of cut grass and warm pine at the end of a mountain afternoon.