OK . . . That was only partly sarcastic . . . It is interesting, though, how we view current events against the backdrop of a decade or two of record keeping. Is the planet warming? Quite possibly it is . . . Still, quite possibly, it was, but is now correcting itself.

I remember the year after Katrina when National Geographic magazine wrote a cover story on the coming blitz of hurricanes and how we had entered a time of unstoppable hurricane inundation . . . The next year no hurricane made land fall and last year was about the same . . .

• A few months ago, Georgia was in a severe drought . . . Can you say, dams and reservoirs . . . last week they were reeling from drenching rains and floods . . . Again, can you say, dams and reservoirs . . .

I think it is easier being in the landscape business than the weather business . . . And speaking of business . . .

There are a few new things happening in and around LSMP these days and I thought now would be a good time to fill you in . . .

1. For instance . . . Check out the Classified Ads section of LandscapeOnline.com. We have begun a promotion offering discounted rates to those who wish to sell something or hire someone. We now have three ways for you to communicate with the industry.
2. You can run a classified on the section at LandscapeOnline.com, which is now directly linked to LandscapeOnlineWeekly and its 33,000 weekly recipients. 2. You can also send an E-Classified through LandscapeOnline.com and reach up to 20,000 industry professionals in a matter of minutes. 3. Or you can run the classified in the pages of LSMP or its sister publications—Landscape Architect and Specifier News and Landscape Contractor National.
3. Also on the home front, we are gearing up again for the Annual LSMP Super Guide, which is about 180-pages of landscape products and services featuring everything from lawn mowers to pesticides to consultants to every imaginable industry association. This annual directory is the largest and most comprehensive resource directory in the market.

Not only that, but with the sister publications already mentioned and with LandscapeOnline.com being the largest landscape-oriented database on the web, if you are looking for any kind of landscape product or service you can pretty well find it through LSMP . . .

• Attention advertisers, suppliers and consultants . . . There is still time to be listed and participate in the 2008 LSMP Super Guide, but don’t wait too long or you will miss the boat and this is one ship you definitely want to catch . . .
• Are you getting LandscapeOnline Weekly? To date, of Landscape Communications’ 110,000 primary readers (Landscape Superintendent and Maintenance Professional, Landscape Architect and Specifier News and Landscape Contractor National) roughly one-third receive LandscapeOnline Weekly. In that E-Magazine, you will find articles, products and resources from all three publications and a few that haven’t yet made it to print. To sign-up simply complete the Reader Service card found on page 61 and send it in. Give us a week or two to get you hooked up and then watch your e-mail every Tuesday night . . .
• Be sure to mark your calendar for the 2008 Western Turfgrass and Landscape Expo held Nov. 5-6 in Pomona, Calif., just outside of L.A. Last year more than 3,500 people showed up for 525 exhibit booths and some 40 seminars . . .

This year the WTLE will be even better than last year’s record-breaking show and with better seminar locations (it was a bit noisy in the exhibit hall last year :-). For more information or to pre-register you can visit . . . You guessed it . . . LandscapeOnline.com . . .

So that’s it . . . I’m outta room . . . See you all at the shows and on the road . . . Have a great spring.

—God Bless