<p>SHAWN GUST/Press A small cluster of golden leaves are backlit from shimmering Lake Coeur d'Alene waters Tuesday near River Avenue.</p>

<p>JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Jacob Porath, left, and Corbin Seward wait to make their entrance into Bestland Retirement Community during Borah Elementary's Halloween parade Monday.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press The shadow of Brian Christopher, a worker with the Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce, provides a downtown building with a brief live wall mural Wednesday as he stretches a strand of holiday lights on a tree. Workers will be stringing thousands of lights on trees along both Lakeside and Sherman Avenues over the next several days.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press Rielley Chapman, a fifth grade student at Hayden Meadows Elementary, flashes a smile at a class mate while waving streamers Thursday during the school's Veterans Day assembly.</p>

<p>JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Kirk Crum unloads snowboards Thursday at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds as he and other volunteers prepare winter sports items and clothing for the 13th annual Winter Swap that is sponsored by Silver Mountain and Lookout Pass' ski patrols. Organizers will be accepting consignment items from the public today from 3 to 8 p.m. Registration forms and tags are available at the Ski Shack in Hayden. Doors open for the event Saturday at 9 a.m. with a $5 entry fee.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press Jeff May uses a chainsaw to carve some finishing touches into a figure on a wildlife totem Wednesday at G.O. Phippeny Park in Coeur d'Alene. May, who carved eight different types of animals into the diseased stump as part of a public art commission with the city, his third.</p>