It’s true. They were deliberately planted by the owners of a lumber forest. The needles of the larch trees planted there turn yellow every autumn and create an image of a smiley face. A photo posted ...

An original Harvey Ball smiley face (image: The World Smiley Foundation) In the 1994 Robert Zemeckis film, Forrest Gump stumbles into the history books as he runs across the country. At one point ...

World Smile Day (celebrated on the first Friday in October) was founded to honor Harvey Ball, the commercial artist who created the iconic yellow smiley face image in the 1960s. It's no wonder ...