By November the geese are back over Baskett Slough and Ash Creek runs high enough to hear from the yard. Webb's Landscaping and Design uses that turn in the year for the slower work — cutting back, gathering leaves, shaping beds and shrubs, thinking through what a lot could become before spring arrives. Design here means paying attention to how Polk County light crosses a yard and where the water wants to go. Then mowing, edging and trimming keep the finished thing looking the way it was drawn. A landscape is never one day's work; it is a long conversation with a piece of ground.