Holiday wreath-making provides much-needed seasonal employment in Sunrise County. It starts with the signs saying “fir tippers” needed – no, it’s not about gratuity payments but rather clipping a specified length of greens from fir trees. There’s an art to it, I’m told, and a drought can add complications.
Then there’s the manufacture and shipping of the wreaths themselves across the country in time for Christmas.
Ours wasn’t made by one of the wreath factories in the county but rather a skilled neighbor. The finished wreaths are sold in the front yard on an honor payment, 12 dollars apiece.
If it were a painting, it would be a study in gray and green.
Happy Holidays!
Jnana's Red Barn 
Gorgeous! I need to start doing (or purchasing from a neighbor!) fresh wreaths. I imagine it’s therapeutic in the creation of them.
We should ask how long it takes to make one. For an amateur like us, I hate to imagine …