October light in South Lyon is flat and generous, and it shows every line in a yard. Topiary Landscaping works for those lines — shrubs shaped so they still look like themselves, hedges squared, beds cut into a clean arc against the lawn. Mowing and trimming keep the field of it even; the pruning is where a yard gets its posture. On the older streets near downtown, where the plantings stand as tall as the porches, one careful season of shaping can make a house look decades lighter. Shape is slow work, and it holds all winter.