The soil around Wrens turns sandy where the Piedmont gives out and the coastal plain takes over, and grass in ground like that wants a keeper who knows it. Down South Landscaping is out on the yards off Highway 1 early, mowing while the morning is still bearable and the pines are shedding straw onto everything below them. The work is mowing, trimming, edging, and pulling a yard back from the pine litter that falls twelve months a year in Jefferson County. Come afternoon the light lies flat and white across the fields, and a lawn cut that morning holds its lines clean on into evening. There's pride in that — a straight edge at the mailbox, a walk swept bare, a yard that looks like somebody is paying attention.