First light in Butts County comes up red — the clay along the shoulder holds that color long after the sun has gone white overhead. All American Lawn & Landscaping works the Worthville yards early, while the dew is still heavy enough to show a mower's line. Mowing, edging, trimming along fence posts and mailbox rows, and then the walk blown clean so nothing tracks back onto the porch. The Towaliga runs on not far off and the pines drop needles all year, so there is always something to clear as well as something to cut. There's a plain satisfaction in a lawn that looks looked-after: even height, a straight edge at the drive, a yard that says somebody was here.