Late-afternoon October light does flattering things to a yard and is merciless about a sloppy edge — every curve of every bed shows. Scape-Abilities works to that standard on Scotch Plains properties: mowing clean, trimming tight to walls and trunks, and cutting bed edges that will hold their shape the rest of the season. Mulch goes down dark, shrubs get shaped rather than sheared flat, and the leaf work carries on until the trees have finished arguing. Come spring the same lines are still there beneath the new growth, waiting to be picked back up. A yard with good bones, kept in them.