A yard is mostly a frame for the house behind it: the beds are the border, the lawn is the field, and the walk is the line your eye follows to the door. Picture Landscaping works in Washington with that in mind — mowing and trimming on schedule, edges cut sharp against the concrete, mulch tucked in around shrubs so the color of the plantings carries. Mid-May is this town at its most willing, everything filling in at once, redbuds gone by and the grass finally thick enough to hold a stripe. Cleanups in spring and fall keep the picture from getting cluttered. The result is quiet, which is exactly the point — nothing shouts, and everything sits right.