South of the river, Oklahoma City keeps its own hours — panaderías open before dawn on SW 29th, cattle trucks rolling toward Stockyards City, and by April the Bermuda coming out of dormancy in stubborn patches of hard green. DeLoera Total Lawncare gets after those first cuts of spring, when a yard can go from straw to lawn in about three weeks if somebody stays on it. The work is mowing, trimming, edging and clearing out whatever the cold months left behind, done steadily enough that nobody has to think about it. Redbuds bloom purple along the side streets right about then, and a mowed yard underneath one is a small, ordinary kind of beautiful. That is the payoff — a south-side block where every third house looks cared for, and then every other, and then most of them.