6. A Candy Cane Fence and Garden of Sweets
A cabin deserves a garden, even in December. I fenced my peppermint yard with little candy cane posts — red and white stripes, a lantern on every third one — and planted the beds with flowers in red and white. Sugar-cane stalks grow along the fence like striped reeds, and a path of pale gravel winds through the middle. It is a small garden, but it makes the whole cabin feel like it belongs somewhere, not just dropped onto the snow.
