In Tunnel Hill the morning fog settles into the low ground under Chetoogeta Mountain and doesn't lift until the ridge has had its say. Shades Of Green Lawn Care LLC keeps the yards along those red-clay streets on a rhythm — mowing, edging, string trimming and a clean blow-off of every walk and drive before the truck pulls away. Summer here piles on heat and thunder, and the grass answers by growing an inch overnight, so the work is steady from the first warm week clear through to the leaf drop. There is a plain kind of pleasure in the last pass of the day: the lines running true toward the road, the border along the driveway cut sharp enough to see from the porch. Come fall the crew moves to cleanups, hauling leaves off the ridge-side lots before the frost turns them to mat. Tunnel Hill, Varnell, Ringgold and Dalton all get the same attention.