October is the kindest month around Waycross: the humidity finally lets go and the light comes sideways through the longleaf pines out toward Laura S. Walker. Southeastern Lawn Pro takes that season as it comes — mowing while there is still growth, raking and hauling pine straw and leaves, edging beds and walks back to a clean line, hedges trimmed down before the cool sets in. Pine straw falls here all year and a lawn can vanish beneath it; clearing it away is half the job and most of the difference. Cool-morning work is good work, steady and quiet. By afternoon the yard is open again and the grass can breathe.