Corina Hurst sits next to her fairy garden in front of her East Pikes Peak Avenue house in Colorado Springs After the city removed her dead tree, Hurst made the tree stump into a magical fairy garden.

PENTWATER, Michigan — Once upon a time, in a land far, far away—well, actually in Pentwater, Michigan—lies a place where grown-ups still believe in magic. It's a fairy tale that begins not with a ...

Lynn Bialek’s whimsical creation all started with a stump. It all started with a stump that Lynn Bialek spotted at a yard waste drop-off center near her home in Birdsboro. “I saw this stump and I just ...

Lots of people walk right by it. But when someone notices it — that there’s something special about this tree stump — they’re known to stop in their tracks. What they see is a whimsical little world ...