Each October we begin promoting our wreath sales on our website and through a mailing to members and past purchasers.  In each case we direct interested buyers to our Online Store, where they may buy using PayPal or where they may print out our order form, fill it in, and mail it with a check.  This year, the minute we began, visitors to our site began getting red DANGER boxes from Google saying http://www.gardenclubbackbay.org was an unverified website and a menace to all who entered.  Most people chose the “Get Me Out of Here” option, which was certainly prudent.  Our web designer Faith Crawford in Los Angeles was on the case immediately, and discovered that WordPress, the company which hosts our blog, had been hacked through its plug-ins (don’t even ask, just know that these plug-ins facilitate ease of use) by possible groups reputedly connected to ISIS.  WordPress hosts many blogs for not for profit schools, universities, groups such as ours, even Friends of the Public Garden.  The disruption this caused was immense.  Thousands of sites were compromised, and the FBI investigated.  We immediately cancelled the plug-ins, rebuilt parts of the site, and had Google give us the all-clear signal. As one of our members commented, “ISIS sees Garden Club ladies with sharp pruners as a threat.”  While the situation was not at all funny, it certainly was a first for us!  Below is a lovely all natural, very peaceful wreath done for a customer who did not want a bow on her wreath.