Three Shovels

About Three Shovels

Evening comes to Alba with the hum of bass boats idling back toward the ramps on Lake Fork, their wakes spreading silver across water known far and wide for the size of its largemouth. Up from the shore, the East Texas woods begin to show September, a first freckle of red in the sweetgums and a softer edge to the heat. Three Shovels is the kind of name you can picture leaning in the bed of a pickup, and it fits work that starts with the ground itself: landscaping and lawn work in Wood County soil. Mowed yards, turned beds and freshly planted corners give a lake-country home its welcome. Out here the evenings stretch long and slow, and a yard that looks tended makes them sweeter.