Out toward Grand Bay the cypress stand in dark water and summer evenings flicker with heat lightning that never quite arrives. Mayo Lawn Care keeps yards trim through those humid Echols County months — mowing on a steady rotation, edging walks and drives, trimming around posts and outbuildings, blowing the clippings off. It is quiet country with few streetlights, the kind of place where a neat yard is a personal statement rather than a neighborhood requirement. Growth here never really stops; it only slows for a few weeks in January. A lawn cut clean against the wiregrass edge of the woods is a fine thing to leave behind.