I'd like to thank the surprisingly large number of PBS members who traveled to the NARGS Western Winter Study Weekend, including some such as Dell Sherk who came all the way from the Atlantic states. We had a pleasant chat session Saturday evening and enjoyed plenty of bulb information in the talks, including a splendid presentation on growing bulbs from seed and in containers by Ian Young, and John Lonsdale's inspiring and amusing saga of how he became a "proper" (outdoor) gardener in America after doing the alpine-house bit in England. Both these talks should get a lot more of the audience growing their geophytes from seed, although there was some untoward laughter when remarks such as "five years from sowing to flowering" were heard. Thank you, too, to the 20 or 30 people who braved the awful weather Sunday to drive out to my place and stand in the rain and, briefly, hail, to look at the bulbs even though they were a month behind schedule. I wish I had had time to visit with everybody at length and felt that I was being inconsiderate to almost everyone I started talking with, because there was always some organizational matter to rush off to, or some urgent question to answer. We do need to get together more! I accepted the position of PBS president with the warning that I wouldn't be able to do much until this meeting was over. Now I'm going to ask people for input so I can formulate some proposals for more activities we could offer our members. One that seems likely is small-group tours in different parts of the country, to see bulbs in flower in the wild and/or to visit gardens and nurseries with notable bulb collections. A couple of people suggested modeling these on the outings of the Penstemon Society, in which people car-pool rather than trying to hire vans or buses. I think this is the way the SIGNA outings for Pacific Coast irises are done also? I suggested northern California/southern Oregon as a good place to see lots of wild bulb species in spring, although the flowering season is very long because of elevational differences. The Central Coast Ranges in California might be another good venue, or perhaps the Sierra Nevada foothills from the Mother Lode country south. I expect a trillium tour in the US Southeast would be fun, too! And if it ever rains again in northern Chile, that would be super though rather expensive. Let's discuss some ideas here, and I'll make up an agenda for discussion at our next board meeting. With best wishes, Jane McGary