Just walking through the kitchen today, and my mom was making
a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, and I noticed this little guy grinning at me!

Nature’s glorious expressions of beauty never cease to amaze me.
I cut into these gorgeous orange peppers and they smiled back at me!

While hiking on Pleasanton Ridge, I noticed the horse hoof prints
looked like smiling mouths.  Here’s the one that photographed best!

Was sitting at the table and realized that this saw had two smileys.

There is a small plant in the window at my friend’s house.
The sun was shining in extra brightly that day
and this is the product of a beautiful day, a plant, and a little water.

I went snorkeling in Sharks’ Cove and noticed that one of the divers
had some happy looking flippers.

Honest…I didn’t arrange these.  They’re just happy!

The tight lipped, be patient smile.

There had to be one on our fence…

I was at a dinner party talking about Smileys
[insert comment from RUTH, SS creator:  Oh, yay!]
and how my wife has gotten tired of my pointing them out [Oh, no]
when my brother says, there’s two on the coconut tree post.
[Oh, goody! Maybe the wife will come around. It is after all a happy thing… Here’s to hoping!-R.K.]

Those darn pine needles annoy me, but this one made me smile!

I was walking back towards my hotel in Virginia Beach,
and I saw an old wooden bar and decided to take a few photos. As I got to the end of the bar I noticed a smiley face made from two peanuts and
a cherry stem, so I decided it was the perfect opportunity for a picture.

I was walking up stairs and looked down to see … yep …
a Smiley on the counter.
We use the red candles when we have company and the periscope is just another piece of interesting junk I picked up years ago.

I was pulling weeds around the potted plants and you guessed it …
I was looking at a smiley under the lily plants.

I was looking at the book shelf and the vibrator had a smile.

I was headed down to feed the worms and
there was a smiley in the wedelia under the banana tree.

Chicago Tribune (and picked up by the wire service):
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-smile-projectmar30,0,2050435.story

http://www.diablomag.com/Diablo-Magazine/July-2009/Come-on-get-happy/

http://www.starbulletin.com/features/20090630_The_world_smiles_back.html

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009907070302

www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/margie_boule/index.ssf/2009/06/she_sees_art_in_spontaneous_sm.html#more

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=298157

Yahoo:
http://astrology.yahoo.com/channel/health/can-you-talk-yourself-into-more-happiness-440320/;_ylt=AmoQv3xWE_lBl_TQFPR_0KVhbqU5