Pining for the Holidays

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Pining for the Holidays It's that time of year when people decorate and celebrate the season. Our religious customs and practices, in addition to the lights, ribbons & bows, wreaths, and trees, show what we believe. Wreaths date back to ancient civilizations. They originated to be worn on one's body. The Greeks wore laurel wreaths as victorious athletes. The Romans wore them as crowns. The circular shape was associated with eternity, having no beginning or end. Greenery, such as the use of pine boughs, was believed to demonstrate nature's enduring cycle of life through the colder and darker winter months. This belief was reinforced in Northern and Eastern Europe. The areas in and around Germany would bring conifer trees inside at Winter. During the Middle Ages, the triangular shape of the trees came to represent the Holy Trinity to Christians. Moravian Christians, one of the oldest Protestant Christian denominations, would illuminate their Christmas trees at night with candles. After the advent of electricity, Christmas candles were eventually replaced with lights. However, you celebrate the season, we're pining for happy and healthy holidays for all! Pictured: Tahoe Fence shop & yard decked out for the holidays in Mound House (Lyon County.) 2025Pining for the Holidays

It’s that time of year when people decorate and celebrate the season. Our religious customs and practices, in addition to the lights, ribbons & bows, wreaths, and trees, show what we believe.

Wreaths date back to ancient civilizations. They originated to be worn on one’s body. The Greeks wore laurel wreaths as victorious athletes. The Romans wore them as crowns.

The circular shape was associated with eternity, having no beginning or end. Greenery, such as the use of pine boughs, was believed to demonstrate nature’s enduring cycle of life through the colder and darker winter months.

This belief was reinforced in Northern and Eastern Europe. The areas in and around Germany would bring conifer trees inside at Winter. During the Middle Ages, the triangular shape of the trees came to represent the Holy Trinity to Christians.

Moravian Christians, one of the oldest Protestant Christian denominations, would illuminate their Christmas trees at night with candles. After the advent of electricity, Christmas candles were eventually replaced with lights.

However, you celebrate the season, we’re pining for happy and healthy holidays for all!

Pictured: Tahoe Fence shop & yard decked out for the holidays in Mound House (Lyon County.) 2025