Thanks to all of you for your very kind messages about my retirement. They mean a lot and were very much appreciated. I am grateful that the original Pacific Bulb Society board was willing to agree to make this list open to anyone who wished to participate, one of my conditions when I agreed to be in charge of the list. I think this has added a lot to the group as we have learned from people who were not members of the Pacific Bulb Society, but had knowledge and experience to contribute. And I thank the people who helped me with the list over the years: Arnold Trachtenberg, Jen Hildebrand, and for the longest time Diane Whitehead and more recently David Pilling. For the most part people on this list have been polite and helpful to other members of the group which has been wonderful. Some of you have held your tongue when unhappy with someone else instead of getting into an argument which has also been appreciated I am sure by other members of the group. I did the topic of the week for more than two years and it was quite a task and towards the end I was running out of steam so it wasn't every week. But many knowledgeable people agreed to provide introductions and I think we all learned a lot. I really enjoyed the weeks when everyone offered their favorites by color. In spite of the kind words from Maggi and Ian I'm not sure I was a successful cat herder, but I suspect that is an impossible task. I did give it my best try. As for the wiki I'm very proud of what we have created. I had never heard of a wiki when someone suggested we start one. In those days a lot of bulb groups were splitting into those people who talked about bulbs and those people who looked at pictures of them. People with slow connections or not much storage space couldn't look at the pictures so didn't join the images groups. Sometimes the images groups provided lots of good information that people in the non image groups missed. I wanted everyone to be in one place. So the wiki seemed like a solution. People could add their photos of bulbs they grew and those people who wanted to see them could and those who didn't wouldn't have to look. As long as we were going to have a place for pictures I wanted to organize it in a way that people would be able to find the pictures again. And it had always been a frustration of mine to see a picture of a bulb without any information about it. So I proposed writing something about the pictures we added. I'm grateful for the help Mark McDonough gave me in the beginning as we thought about how to do it. He also contributed a lot of information and photos (especially Allium) before he moved on. And he helped me remove all the bizarre things people used to upload to the wiki in those days when there weren't free places to add images and before we required a password. Mark Wilcox patiently taught me Unix which saved me time and came up with our first tables and first wiki design before he too moved on. Jay Yourch added a lot of images of bulbs grown in the southern United States while he was involved with the wiki and he got some of his friends (one was Alani Davis) to add images as well. His Crinum pages and Narcissus cultivar pages on the wiki are wonderful. And he wrote a program for our first thumbnails. Susan Hayek worked on the wiki almost every day during the time she was helping. She and I took on the task of adding John Lonsdale's wonderful images to the wiki. Linda Foulis helped for awhile and was on board when we had to change every single url for every single picture when we changed to http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/ and she and Dave Brastow also helped with the thumbnail conversion (again we had to change every line for every photo on the wiki.) Lee Poulsen never was a wiki administrator, but he did add rainfall graphs, a popular feature of the wiki, and lots of images, an edible bulb page, and led to us finding information on genera with bulbs when he added potential wiki pages without information (and we got tired of looking at the question marks.) Yes, Lee you have been forgiven. I must admit that it was after those hours and hours put into those changes that I cried when I learned that the wiki software we were using that had not been supported was no longer going to work. I spent a week trying to decide if I'd feel worse losing all the work we had put into it or spending all the time to convert. I had recruited Nhu Nguyen to help with the wiki and he helped me research possibilities until I settled on the current wiki. And then a miracle of sorts, a developer from Lithuania helped me convert the old wiki to the new one. We communicated by email and he offered to help since he had the time and was interested in the process and had a mother who loved to grow flowers. He was a huge help, but it still was probably a year before I managed to go through every page and fix things. Many of the list members helped by looking at pages and alerting me to things that needed changing. One of the best things about losing the old wiki besides using software that is updated all the time and allows for a lot more possibilities is that we gained David Pilling who answered my plea for help. He has made an enormous difference to the Pacific Bulb Society by making so many things so much easier to do than they used to be. And he is adding things to the wiki all the time. He is especially interested in Lilium and has added so much to those pages, not only his own pictures, but pictures from other Lilium enthusiasts as well. He also has been willing to add photos from people who find the wiki hard to use. Mike Mace has contributed so much great information to the wiki since he joined the team. He is responsible for so much of the how to grow information and he finally took on trying to sort out the Narcissus species pages which I tried to get help with for years and finished adding John Lonsdale's Crocus photos. Nhu helped with a new design for the home page and finished writing something about each family represented on the wiki when I lost interest. He has added a lot of photos he has taken and generally been supportive at each stage. And he took all the cultivation information I had saved that had been offered over the years and added it to each wiki genus page that we had information about. The newest member of the wiki team, Gastil has been interested in adding photos of seed, bulbs, and media and is helping David Pilling review wiki pages as they are changed. She already is making a valuable contribution. I probably averaged a couple of hours every day working on the wiki, answering emails, problem solving, but I had a lot of help as well. I'm looking forward to having the time to do other things. Maybe I can finally find time to join the Scottish Rock Garden forum as a lurker. I've learned a lot as a result of having these jobs, not only about bulbs, but also technical computer kinds of things. Probably the most fun has been making friends with people from around the world who shared my passion. We were lucky to get to meet people in Switzerland, France, Scotland, England, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Some people came to see us as well and the California meetings have been another opportunity to make friends. I've been lucky to have an extraordinary group of helpers as well. Working with them on a common goal has been a privilege. Thanks too to all of you who struggled through learning how to add to the wiki and added photos and text and to those of you who shared your images so people around the world could have this great bulb resource. Giorgio Pozzi created Arisaema pages, Jim Waddick provided information and photos for Lycoris, Mary Gerritsen made a major contribution to the Calochortus pages and Christiaan van Schalkwyk to the Oxalis pages. My good South African friends, Alan Horstmann, Cameron McMaster, and Rod and Rachel Saunders have let me add a lot of their photos as well. Lately Oron Peri from Israel has been adding a lot of photos of species from Europe and Asia we didn't have represented on the wiki before. Two other Italians have added a lot of photos to the wiki: Alessandro Marinello and Angelo Porcelli. Angelo has been contributing for a long time. He started by creating a page for the place he lived, Apulia, and then has continued to add text and photos over time. Long ago Lauw de Jager told me my messages were too long and I should shorten them. If there are still any of you left reading this I apologize for that, but I did want to credit all those people who have helped me along the way. I never did finish my "to do" list for the wiki as it always seemed new things came up before I got to some of them. If I find myself with time on my hands I may get around to working on some of them. But I am enjoying having more time and my garden has been very colorful this spring. We've not had the rain we normally have so I am getting an opportunity to see what grows better with less rain and humidity. The last couple of years I've been sprinkling extra seeds around so am finding surprises. Thanks again for all the nice responses. Mary Sue