Oak Park Conservatory groups ("Cereus", "Opuntia", and "Pereskia"), plus succulents including "Agave", "Crassula", succulent euphorbias, "Gasteria", "Haworthia", and "Kalanchoe". Woody plants in this room include olive, etrog, fig, date palm, bay and pomegranate. The conservatory's orchids and ferns collection holds orchids, Australian tree ferns and other tropic and sub-tropic fern species, as well as begonias, "Clivia", Ponderosa lemon, sea grape, "Strelitzia reginae", and "Syzygium". The rainforest collection includes "Anthurium", aroids, banana, cycads, dracaenas, ferns, fig trees, "Monstera deliciosa", palms (lady, fishtail, fan, and Canary Island date), papaya, "Peperomia", "Pilea", spider plants, as well as a pond with koi, goldfish, and turtles. In addition
This Is How the Wind Shifts also talks about settling down and giving up one's dreams. The lyrics of "Massachusetts" refer to an abusive relationship and the problems one faces with it. The band nearly thought about not recording the song due to its similarity to another Silverstein song. As a compromise, the group "changed it around slightly" according to Told. The tracks "This Is How" and "The Wind Shifts" were written and recorded at the same time. Told notes that they are a summary of the album and that they "symbolize how similar everyone is regardless of how different they seem externally." "A Better Place"