 All right, good morning all, I hope you can see my screen. I just want to thank everyone for joining us in the, for our third virtual Kentucky Botanical Symposium. We did the first one in 2020 with the COVID we said, oh my goodness, what can we do to make sure that we can still go ahead with the symposium and so we went virtual and realize that this was the way to do it because it we could get a lot more people to join the meeting and we could also have speakers from all across the country so from now on going forward the symposium is going to be virtual so Kentucky Native Plant Society mission, you should all be aware of it but I always like to restated at the start of anything the mission of the Kentucky Native Plant Society is to promote education about appreciation for and conservation of our native flora. I just want to thank the team that put this together and what I'm going to do is a quick review of 2022 and a preview of 2023. Okay, the year began with Wildflower Week, where we had several events, and we started last year for the first time on the first day of the Wildflower Week. We set up a series of hikes all around the state we had 1111 hikes over 40 people participating to just kick off the hikes and other activities for Wildflower Week. This was such a success that we're definitely doing it again this year. We are going to change the name though. Since INAP tutorial hikes just didn't sound that interesting. So right now we're tentatively calling next year's hikes the Botany Blitz first day hikes so be looking for notification of that. Last year we did a Botany Blitz on INAP that was second time here I think we did Botany Blitz. Maybe third, I can't remember now, but any rate it was an inaturalist project set up and coordinated by Vanessa Volker. Thank you, Vanessa. And in that week, the week before Wildflower Week and starting April 2nd to the 9th, we had over 40,000 observations made and recorded of 538 species of plants. Several, I think six or seven are plants that are rare in Kentucky. 121 observers and 221 identifiers from 73 counties in Kentucky so it was a real success and we're looking for even more this year. Then at the end of Wildflower Week we had our first in-person Wildflower Weekend since 2019. The weather up at Natural Bridge was a little cool and a little damp. We did have a few snow showers during the hikes, but everybody was so excited to come together and dressed for the weather and they were great success. I think we had a total of around 14 different hikes. And then of course our presentations on Saturday night. We had a couple field trips. We hope to do more in 2023, but we had a couple nice field trips. The first one on June 11th was down in the Ballard Wildlife Management Area. A chance for people to see the all-cypress tuple of Woodland Forest in the Ohio River bottomlands. The first in Kentucky Nature Preserves lists the cypress tuple of swamp as a state endangered ecosystem, and it's just a great place to explore. We did see one Kentucky rare species, swamp candles, isomacha terrestris, which was a nice treat. And then in July, Alan Abbott took a group up to blades in Buena Vista Glades just across the river in Indiana. This was because he knew the area and several other and the habitat is much like blades throughout that part of Kentucky as well. It was a good hike with several unusual species there. Okay, and in July, end of July, we had a workshop, all day workshop. We had originally scheduled this for March of 2020, and you all know what happened in March of 2020. So we were so excited to be able to ask Dr. Richard Abbott from the University of Arkansas at Monticello to come down to Bernheim. And he did an all day workshop titled Plant Family Identification Motifs, Patterns for Simplifying Complexity. And his description, brief description, using minimal basic vocabulary, approximately 30 plant families and half a dozen artificial motifs, we will focus on plant identification pattern. Completely full 20 participants and the feedback from the participants was great. So we're going to do some more workshops this year. Then in October, we had been our first fall meeting in person. This was October 15th. It was a gorgeous day up at Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park. Blue Licks is one of the few locations in the world. Three counties in Kentucky, one county in Indiana, where the globally rare Shorts Goldenrod is found. We began in the morning with presentations about Shorts Goldenrod, Dr. Carol Baskin talked about the ecology of the federally endangered species, and then Jeff Slade gave a presentation on Shorts Goldenrod today, recent management efforts, challenges and successes. Then after lunch, we, Heidi and the immediate past president, Tara Littlefield, took us all on a walk through the Limestone Glade community. We saw Shorts Goldenrod in flower, along with several other interesting late, late, early fall species. And Kentucky Botanist Big Year 2022, this is an inaturalist project again, managed by Vanessa Volcker, runs from January through December, and records any observations of plants made in Kentucky. It was an excellent year, a year, 13,500 observations of 1,427 different species of Kentucky plants. And of those six were six or so were rare species in Kentucky. And the one thing that stands out about the Botanist Big Year, 673 people identified plants on there. And thank you to all the identifiers that makes these inaturalist projects very successful. So thank you. Okay, sorry. KNPS in 2023, we hope to have a great year. Oh, I forgot to mention the Kentucky Botanical Syntosium that we're in. So, next year we're planning the, the bite Kentucky Botanist Big Year 2023 is already up on iNaturalist so check it out and join the project. We're going to have a Kentucky Native Plant Society planning retreat at the end of February in Bernheim. This will be basically the board and members interested in providing input at Bernheim to plan activities for KNPS over the next several years. I'll be getting out an email to members this weekend. Our Botany Blitz First Day Heights scheduled for April 8. The Wildflower Week Botany Blitz April 8 through the 15th. Wildflower weekend this year we're moving away from Natural Bridge State Park this year to Cumberland Falls April 14 and 16th. For fans of Natural Bridge, don't worry, our plan right now is to alternate, alternate year so that one year at Natural Bridge in the next year at a different state resort park. Field trips, workshops, we're going to have a full meeting and the Botanical Symposium and I'm out of time. I'm just going to say one other thing. Our Lady Slipper blog, which I'm sure many of you, if not most of you get via the email digest, we're always looking for articles so if you have any, any thoughts about writing an article. Please send an email to Lady Slipper at no spaces, one word at fanps.org. So thank you, and I'll stop sharing.