Free yule log celebration with music at Morrow nature preserve

Next Friday (Dec. 11), the Reynolds Nature Preserve in Morrow will host a free evening event filled with holiday cheer.

Enjoy music by the Morrow and Forest Park High School orchestras, face painting and ornament making at the a 146-acre nature preserve located in the heart of Clayton County. Then follow a candlelit path through the woods to a bonfire where you will find storyteller Barry Mann painting pictures of holidays past. Children will search the hillside lit with firelight for a cedar log with a big red bow. This log will be tossed into the fire, and then used again at next year's yule celebration.

Free. 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Friday, Dec. 11. Reynolds Nature Preserve in Morrow. 5665 Reynolds Road, Morrow, Georgia. 770-477-3766. www.reynoldsnaturepreserve.org