I don't like lilacs particularly, but this is their two days of fame....









Some 'rising sun' art.






I didn't know there were turtle farmers. When I was a kid, turtles and alligators were available at the dime store. I got a couple of turtles, but never, never an alligator.


National
Turtle Farmers See an Opening for a Recovery
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 13, 2007
MONROE, La., May 12 (AP) — In 1970, salmonellosis, a disease associated with pet turtles, was diagnosed in 250,000 American children, and by 1975 the Food and Drug Administration had imposed a ban on the sale or distribution of turtles with shells smaller than 4 inches across — the size commonly sold as pets.