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Ohio Outdoors: Deck the halls with...

- Julie Watson

Deck the Halls with…

I bet you finished that line. During a Portage County winter, most of our trees and herbaceous plant life slumber until the arrival of spring. Mix bare branches with cloudy skies and short days, and you’ve got a recipe for gloom and despair. This is why our ancestors celebrated evergreens, plants that are green all year even in the grayest of winters. We carry on that tradition today, especially at Christmas.

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