I'd like to echo Lee Poulsen's comments about the weekend get together. I too enjoyed the four talks and touring the Berkeley Botanical Garden. And it was fun to explore Mt. Diablo with interested plant people. Most of all however it was wonderful to reconnect with people I've seen a few times before, to make new friends, and to connect faces with people I've only known from their posts to this list. Thanks go to Paul Licht and the UC Botanical Garden for giving us a place to meet, to Marilyn Pekasky for her help with the food and for arranging the delicious pot luck lunch while the rest of us were listening to talks, and most of all to Nhu for coming up with the idea for the meeting and pulling it all together. He got the permissions, organized the speeches, communicated with people who came and hoped to come, but then couldn't, directed everyone to the places we needed to be, and led us and fed us on the unofficial field trip. For those of us who wanted to have dinner together Nhu found us a place where we could have good food and one table we could fit around and still hear the voice of someone sitting across the table. That doesn't happen often. Thanks too to Alan Horstmann who after the 2006 IBSA Symposium shared his slide show of close-ups of South African bulbs with me and said I could show it to others if I liked. Since one of the best things about meetings like this one is chatting with others who share the passion and enthusiasm I encourage others on the list from different states and countries to set up a meeting and issue an invitation to others to attend. Even though this one was in Northern California, we had representatives from Southern California, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona who came. So you can never tell how far people will be willing to travel for this kind of a meeting. Mary Sue