It’s the holiday season again, and we’d like to wish all our readers and supporters all the best, for this season and for the year ahead.

Painting by Brian Stewart

We’d like to celebrate with this quiet painting by artist Brian Stewart, showing bees on eucalyptus flowers.

As the world’s tallest flowering plant, and one that blooms year-round, eucalyptus gives sustenance to a host of creatures: Bees and other insects, birds that feed on the nectar or the insects, or nest in and on the tree. To us, this tree symbolizes the giving spirit of the season.

SEASON’S GREETINGS, AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!