A yard in South Lyon is really the rest of the house — the part you see out the kitchen window while the kettle heats. Lyon Homescape keeps that view in order: grass cut and edged through the long green stretch, beds trimmed back, leaves gathered when the maples along the old rail-trail let go all at once in October. Then the year turns and the same attention goes to the drive and the front walk, plowed and shoveled and salted so the door opens onto something walkable. It is a small promise, kept about forty times between April and March. The house ends up looking like someone loves it, because someone does.