Summer evening in Woodworth: the heat lets go around seven, the pines go from green to black against the sky, and whatever was mowed that day is still on the air an hour later. This is lawn care for Rapides Parish yards across a central Louisiana growing season long enough that grass can put on a week's height in four days. The work is cutting at the right height for all that shade, trimming what the deck cannot reach, and clearing the pavement so nothing gets tracked indoors. Fence lines and ditch banks are cut back so a lot keeps its shape instead of closing in from the edges. By dusk the yard is squared away and the crickets have it to themselves.