Fog sits low in the Dan River bottom most mornings here, and it burns off just about the time the first mower starts. Angelic Viking Lawn Care works the yards of Leaksville while the grass still holds night damp — cutting, trimming the fence lines, edging clean along walks and drives. There is a plain satisfaction in the last pass, when the stripes line up and the clippings get blown back off the concrete. Piedmont summers push fescue hard and Piedmont autumns bury it in oak leaves, so the calendar keeps changing what the work is. What stays the same is the finish: a yard that looks looked-after from the road.