The Alapaha runs south through Echols County toward the Florida line, sand-bottomed and clear in places, and spring reaches this corner of Georgia before it reaches almost anywhere else. Affordable Lawn Care Solutions works the western side of the county from that first March flush onward — mowing, edging drives and walks, trimming fence lines and posts, and clearing clippings and yard debris. Out here properties run big and the pines stand close, so a mown yard against all that timber reads like an announcement. The season stretches nine months, which means the mower is rarely put away for long. Every visit is one more week of a place looking looked-after.