FOUND: “I’ve found the May flowers again,” a triumphant Joe Cucuzza told us on Thursday.

“Every year I go out and find May flowers and call to tell you about it.”

He said he was a little late this year, as an injury had kept him home. However, with the nicer weather, he and his wife went for a ride on Wednesday and found the flowers.

“Even though the whole world is falling apart, the one constant we have is I went out in the woods and found May flowers,” Joe said, laughing. He found them up behind the Valley Hunt Club, where he finds them every year.

Thanks for telling us about a little bit of beauty in a stressful time.

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JELLY BEANS: For the Easter holiday, 16 billion jelly beans are manufactured. If we were to make a trail to the moon, we could make it — of the way with the total number of jelly beans each season. According to Candystore.com, “Blueberry bean lovers can thank Ronald Reagan. Jelly Belly needed a blue jelly bean when he was elected, and the blueberry jelly bean was born.” Residents of Indiana and Rhode Island are sure to be grateful, as that flavor topped the charts for those two states.

Candystore.com has created a map with the most popular Jelly Bean flavors in each state ranked, as well as the first and second runners up. The results are solidly grounded in over 12 years of sales data, and over 10,000 survey responses as well, according to the site.

The top three flavors for Pa. residents are cinnamon, black licorice, blueberry. Meanwhile, over the border in New York state, the winners were sour, buttered popcorn and toasted marshmallow and in Ohio, cinnamon took first place, followed by black licorice and buttered popcorn.

In fact, Pa. matches preferences with a lot of states, as cinnamon finished first in Pa., Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, North Dakota, Arizona, California and Kansas.

Meanwhile, other first choices included buttered popcorn (7 states); black licorice (6 states); cherry (6 states); watermelon (3 states); juicy pear (3 states); pink strawberry (2 states); coffee (2 states); blueberry (2 states); chocolate (Illinois); cotton candy (Alaska); root beer (Maine) and orange (Idaho).