Why stop to smell the roses when you can get a lungful of lilacs?

Making it to its first birthday is quite an accomplishment for a painted turtle.

Magnolia trees would do well to befriend beetles but leave bees behind.

Hello, yellow! Boy, are we glad to see you. 

Sometimes it is a subtle thing that brings you back to a certain time and place in your life. All week I have been finding myself thinking of the New Jersey suburb of my youth, though it took me a while to figure out what brought my thoughts back to my hometown of Hazlet.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”