A backyard in Proviso Township is a room with the ceiling taken off — patio, grill, a table where people eat from May to October and a path that still has to be walked in January. Paul's Outdoor Living looks after both versions of that room. Warm months bring mowing, trimming, edging and bed care so the space out back is ready whenever someone decides to use it; cold months bring the plow, the salt and a shoveled path from the door to the car. Working a property year-round means the same eye on it in every kind of light, which is how small things get caught before they become chores. The best result is an ordinary one: a yard that is simply usable, whatever the calendar says. West of the city, that takes attention twelve months long.