Christmas now blazes with light, or more accurately lights, with streets and houses festooned for weeks before Christmas with enough illumination to guide a jumbo jet into land. While I understand ...

The wreath has long been a symbol of protection, of life prevailing over the dark and dangerous forces of winter. Romans, Norsemen, German pagans and later Christians all have been drawn to ...

Sherry Park has made a lot of decorative wreaths. The president of the Springfield Civic Garden Club, she said there is no “right” way to make a wreath — a decorated ring of evergreen branches or ...