Itta Bena took its name from Choctaw words meaning a home in the woods, and the woods are still close — pecan and cypress standing at the edge of nearly every field. B&B Land Clearing keeps lawns inside that green frame, mowing and edging so a yard reads clean against all the growth pressing in. February is the honest month around here, everything bare and gray, the season for hauling off downed limbs and old leaf litter before spring makes its first push. Then Leflore County greens up practically overnight and the mowing starts in earnest. There is something plainly right about a straight cut line where the yard ends and the treeline begins.