Norton Creek threads quietly through Wixom, and the yards that back onto it green up first each spring. Land-Art works those lawns — mowing, trimming, edging, keeping the season's growth in hand from the first warm week to the last leaf down. June in this part of Michigan is humid and generous; grass moves fast, and staying ahead of it is most of the art. A crisp edge along a walk is a small thing that changes how a whole property reads. Coming back to a lawn cut straight and true is its own reason to keep at it.