Don and Cathy Bergeron put up Christmas lights Sunday morning at their house on Gammage Avenue in Auburn. “It’s just about the last day we can do this before it gets wet,” Cathy Bergeron said, as she hung a strand of lights around a tree after covering the bushes. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
Don and Cathy Bergeron put up Christmas lights Sunday morning at their house on Gammage Avenue in Auburn. “It’s just about the last day we can do this before it gets wet,” Cathy Bergeron said, as she hung a strand of lights around a tree after covering the bushes. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
Mike Small has been growing poinsettias for almost 40 years, learning the trade from his father. The business has grown over the years, until downsizing recently with his selling Roak The Florist on Main Street in Lewiston. Small has taken over one of the Whiting greenhouses and now grows on a smaller scale at Small’s Plant Care at 726 Summer St. in Auburn. In this photograph, Small looks over flowers Sunday morning that he has watched grow since the beginning of July. Most of the poinsettias are going to the Lewiston High School swim team sale. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
Mike Small has been growing poinsettias for almost 40 years, learning the trade from his father. The business has grown over the years, until downsizing recently with his selling Roak The Florist on Main Street in Lewiston. Small has taken over one of the Whiting greenhouses and now grows on a smaller scale at Small’s Plant Care at 726 Summer St. in Auburn. In this photograph, Small looks over flowers Sunday morning that he has watched grow since the beginning of July. Most of the poinsettias are going to the Lewiston High School swim team sale. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
Sue Knedler spray paints a spot on the giant 8-foot wreath that she and her brother Donald Gage, right, and her husband, Rick, not pictured, were making Saturday morning in front of the home the sister and brother grew up in on Route 2 in New Sharon. They planned to use a pulley system to hoist it up onto the 50-foot silo. They hope the wreath will last for the next two months. It’s the first time they have tried something like this, hoping to bring smiles to passing motorists. The farm is known as the Gage Farm, where their grandfather, father, and Donald operated a dairy farm until 2005, when the Knedlers bought it from Donald. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
Sue Knedler, left, watches her brother Donald Gage, right, and her husband, Rick, work on a bracket they will use to secure and hoist this giant 8-foot wreath they were making onto the farm’s silo. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
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