Plum Creek bends slowly through Randolph County under sycamores that go bone-white by January. Plum Creek Lawncare takes its name from that water and works both halves of the year around Sparta: mowing, trimming and edging through the long green stretch, then plowing, shoveling and salting once the roads glaze over. Winter down here often opens with freezing rain rather than snow, so clearing a drive can start with ice and end with grit under the tires. In July that same drive is a mow line, straight and cool-looking against the heat. Two very different jobs with one aim, a place you can walk up to without thinking about it.