Pat's Mowing

About Pat's Mowing

Summer storms build fast over the Cherokee National Forest, roll across Turtletown in the afternoon, and leave the hollows steaming once the sun breaks through. Pat's Mowing follows behind the weather, cutting yards that have shot up in the warm, wet mountain air and trimming them back from gravel drives and woodpiles. Here the ridges crowd close and the woods are always pressing at the margins of the grass, so every pass of the mower draws the border between home and forest anew. There is deep satisfaction in it: the scent of cut grass mixing with rain-washed laurel, a yard laid open beneath a clearing sky. For Turtletown, this is mowing that keeps the mountain at a friendly arm's length.