Holiday magic

Through different forms of Christmas greenery making, Seeley Lake community members rang in the holiday season with evergreen boughs.

On Dec. 1, Lu Perez, a Seeley Lake community member, gathered 14 women for what she's deciding is the first annual Christmas wreath making party. She got the idea after making a wreath herself, which she donated to an auction for Sparrow's Vine, a parenting resource center in Seeley Lake. People loved it, she said, and it gave her the idea of hosting a gathering where she could teach others to make wreaths themselves.

The group spent three hours together at Pere...