Head west out of Valdosta on 84 and the town gives way fast — field edges, pines in rows, a long straight road toward Quitman with a lot of grass on either side of it. J.B.M. LAWN SERVICE works that stretch and the town blocks both, which means one morning is a tidy front yard and the afternoon is an acre of open turf that takes real time to cross. The job stays the same either way: mow it even, cut the borders in, trim what the mower cannot get, and leave the drive clear. South Georgia grass grows hard from spring through October and rewards anybody who keeps a schedule. Standing at the road afterward and seeing straight lines all the way back to the treeline never really gets old.