The blue "Welcome to Wareham" banners on Main Street will be coming down in the next few weeks to make way for festive banners with a winter theme.

The winter banners feature a photo of cranberries and read: "Tis the Season to Live, Work, & Play in Wareham."

The photo on the banner was taken by Bob "Grumpy" Conway, who worked on A.D. Makepeace cranberry bogs for more than 45 years. Conway spent many of those years documenting the wildlife and plants surrounding the bogs through his photographs. He passed away in 2010, and his sister (and town moderator), Claire Smith, has been busy going through the photos and enlarging them for showings.

Community and Economic Development Authority Director Salvador Pina spotted the cranberry photo hanging in the A.D. Makepeace Company's Rosebrook medical office building, where a handful of photos are permanently displayed. He was inspired and asked to use it. He doctored the photo a bit to give it more of an artsy, graphical look for the banners.

Pina thanked A.D. Makepeace Company and Smith for allowing him to use the photo. More of Conway's work can be viewed at this weekend's Cranberry Harvest Celebration.

The banners will be installed in the beginning of November.

The original blue banners, which have a swan graphic and read "Welcome to Wareham; Live, Work, Play" were installed in August. The new light poles installed during the recent phases of the Main Street "Streetscape" beautification project previously had no banners, as Main Street's old banners did not fit the new poles.