Every garden is a thing of beauty in the growing seasons — spring bulbs, summer flowers and fall foliage all carry on with extravagance. But winter is coming, so the colorful garden superstars will ...

Pale birch bark always looks luminescent in winter light and, on those crystal-clear days peculiar to midwinter, you can admire the tree's finely chiselled web of slate-black branches between you and ...

Under Tao's guidance, the students painstakingly peel off the outermost hard shell of the birch bark. From there, they continue to carefully peel off the birch bark, layer by layer, cutting the bark ...