The Ohio makes a long, slow bend past Franklin Furnace, and the Scioto County hills crowd right down to the water, wooded clear to the top. Route 52 threads the flat between river and ridge, and the old iron country back in the trees has gone green again, the way it always does. American Pride Lawn Maintenance keeps the yards along that river shelf mown, trimmed and edged through the muggy southern Ohio summer, when grass can put on half a foot after one warm rain. Winter is shorter down here, but when a night of ice or snow settles into the hollows, drives and walks come first — nobody climbs those grades otherwise. Clean lines in June, clear pavement in January: the same work in different boots.