Some Waynesville mornings the fog lies over the flatwoods in low bands and burns off a strip at a time as the sun climbs. Smokey Ridge Landscape & Design LLC is out in it, cutting the first yards of the day while Brantley County is still cool and mostly quiet. The work runs to mowing, edging, trimming, cleanup of clippings and fallen limbs, and shaping the grass lines that give a yard its outline. Design starts with what is already standing there — where the pines sit, where water goes after a storm, where a curve of turf actually makes sense. By mid-morning the mist has lifted and the finished lawns stand out sharp and green against the woods.