Before sunrise the highway through Valliant is all headlights and pine shadow, and the grass along the shoulder holds a night's worth of dew. Love's Travel Stop keeps grounds and lawns mowed in this stretch of US-70 country, where a cut edge is the first thing anyone sees coming into town. Mowing, string trimming around posts and signs, edging the concrete, then a last pass to pick up whatever the machine threw — the same round, always in order. Southeast Oklahoma grows grass fast in July, so the schedule stays weekly and the lines stay fresh. By evening the place looks tidy under the lights and the day's work still shows.