Late August in Sandy Ridge: hay cut and rolled across the fields, the Sauratown ridgeline sitting blue on the southern horizon, the grass green again after the first real rain in weeks. Lawn Ranger Landscaping runs its route through that stretch, mowing, string trimming and edging yards that back up to pasture and pine. Country properties come with obstacles — gravel shoulders, culverts, fence posts, the mailbox everybody notices — and each one gets handled by hand. Finished right, a yard out here reads clean and deliberate against the fields around it. Sandy Ridge, King, Madison and the Stokes County crossroads nearby are all within reach.