View holiday trees, eagle's wingspan at Fellows' "Winter Celebration: The Forest'

YOUNGSTOWN

Visitors to Fellows Riverside Gardens now can experience the beauty of the forest while avoiding the winter-weather elements.

Trees adorned with glimmering lights and beads now line the D.D. and Velma Davis Education & Visitor Center, which has been transformed for “Winter Celebration: The Forest,” a display that is in place today through Jan. 3.

The experience begins when visitors enter the center – which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this month – and step into the lobby, which has been decorated with trees from the gardens, leaves, plants, pine cones, lights and holiday decorations.

Walking toward the library and cafe, visitors will see “Lizzie’s Fort,” a tree house playfully named in honor of Elizabeth Fellows, the benefactor who donated the land to Mill Creek Park for the public garden at 123 McKinley Ave.

The display also includes the “In the Tree Top” exhibit, which features a life-size eagle’s nest, a board on which visitors can compare their arm span to an eagle’s wingspan, and two taxidermied eagles, and FRG’s Holiday Tree Walk downstairs.