 We want to thank everyone for coming out on this gorgeous, beautiful early spring morning to renew and receive this wonderful wildflower field. Last year, the abundance of beauty and sensational natural splendor barred by the sunflowers and zinnias blossoming at this intersection welcomed everyone to the city of Columbia at one of our major gateways. The beautiful passage, Jimmy, would you come join us too, please, brother? I know you're taking pictures, so come on, just come please as well kind enough to make this beautiful piece of property available to us again this year, Hope Plaza. We're thankful to Christ Central. The splendor and color of this field brought joy and hope, not only to citizens of our great city, but also visitors from all around the state and those from around the country, some visiting Columbia for the very first time. When visiting the site last summer and early fall, I was reminded of some eloquent verses from God's Word, Matthew 628, to consider the lilies and wildflowers of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin. Yeah, I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. For many, in some of the most difficult times that some of us have lived through, the flowers noted in these verses, they symbolize rebirth and hope and God's promise that good things can come even during the most pressing and troublesome of times. Amid the hardship and trials visited to our city last year during the COVID-19 pandemic, this wildflower garden in many ways was representative of the simplest joys of life and nature's most recurring and resilient delights. They brought pleasure and joy to us all. Encouraged by those simple joys, we're pleased due to the beneficence of, again, of Christ Central and some of our wonderful seed donors this year, including Susie Hayward and Dr. Lewis Linn, two of our most prominent and active citizens and philanthropists. We've added more wildflower fields and other areas of the city this year. River Drive, the south side of River Drive, right across the Noma Gardens, a fowl road just past Tougaloo. Divine Street at the intersection of Croson Road and Divine, and over on Bull Street, the folks from Hughes Development are doing the same at Bull Street near Colonial Drive just north of New REI. Just like last year, we can look forward to visiting this and the other new planting sites beginning in Midsomer to witness and enjoy God's own natural beauty in Splendor. I want to thank you all for covering this. Again, this was a unique and simple way that due to the charity of family members like Reverend Jones and Lewis Linn and Susie Hayward and some others last year along with these amazingly talented team members of the City of Columbia who are always thinking of ways for us to come together and pull us together in some of the most difficult times. Last year was special. This year, we're going to have four or five times of fun, so excited for it. Just want to thank all of us here. I'm going to ask, although he won't want to say a word, I'm going to make Howard Duvall say a word, City Councilman, who I think probably arguably has the greenest thumb on City Council as well. He's a very talented lover of nature to say a brief word. Thank you Mayor. This is a wonderful day, beautiful day to plant these wildflowers in the City of Columbia. I was telling the crowd before we started this event that I listened to an NPR program on Friday afternoon and they were talking about the Great Sunflower Pollinator Program where they were going to be planting sunflowers all over the United States and on a certain day they were going to look at the pollinators that were on the sunflowers. Sunflowers has the attraction for the pollinators and that's a good way we can determine what pollinators are still out there and we can't have our crops without having them pollinated. So thank you for everybody that has made this possible not only from this site but on the other sites in the City of Columbia and thanks for the staff for putting this program together. I think there'll be something that the whole Midlands will enjoy. I think the adage is someone I'm very familiar with says what you reap is what you sow and if you sow love and grace and mercy and beauty then you reap the beauty that we saw in people last year and we'll reap it four or five times over this year. So let's get to work.