Well Balanced. Volume 29. A round-up helping you get today right.

📈 Stock Quote

"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."

— Michael Pollan, American author and journalist.

🤔 Riddle Me This 

I protect you. I sit on a bridge. You can see through me. People walking by might wonder what I hide.

(scroll down for the answer)

🌸 Garden Highlights

Discover what's blooming at the Arb. Crabapple (Malus), Tulip (Tulipa), and Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) are just a few of the plants emerging this spring at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. 

Updated weekly, the Garden Highlights web page features plants in bloom or with outstanding characteristics.

Link to Arboretum's Garden Highlights

🐎 Horse Races – In the Know

• Mystic Dan won the Kentucky Derby by a nose, beating Sierra Leone and Forever Young with a time of 2:03.34 on May 4th.

• The Triple Crown is a series of horse races for three-year-old thoroughbreds, consisting of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.

• Preakness Stakes is scheduled for May 18th and Belmont Stakes is scheduled for June 8th, 2024.

🍿 ICYMI

Podcast, Video & Content from Vector

🤔 Riddle Answer: Sunglasses!!

🕶️ Sunglasses Facts & Figures

1. National Sunglasses Day is June 27th.

2. The first sunglasses can be traced back to Eskimos, who were native to Alaska, Greenland, Siberia, and other Arctic regions some 2,000 years ago.

3. Luxottica, an Italian sunglasses company, designs, manufactures, and distributes many of today’s hot brands, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear, Arnette, Alain Mikli, Costa, Bliz, Native Eyewear, and Bolon. 

4. Sir Elton John, the English songwriter and singer, is reported to have the world’s most extensive collection of sunglasses. Reports suggest he has more than 1,000 pairs.

🎧 Podcast

Subscribe to Vector’s Well Balanced podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify for weekly market updates and real-world financial planning scenarios.

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