Late on a summer afternoon the thunderheads pile up over the Deep Fork bottoms south of Paden, white and enormous, and everybody within twenty miles keeps one eye on them. Signs & Wonders works the hours before that — mowing, trimming and edging in the hard clear light, ahead of whatever the sky decides to do. Rain here comes fast and heavy, and grass answers it within days, so the schedule bends around the weather rather than the other way round. There is a real satisfaction in finishing a yard just in time: even lines, walks swept, and then the first cool gust arriving right on cue. Small towns in Okfuskee County keep their shape one mowed yard at a time.