Graduation Day June 6

My 2nd child walks the path today and receives her High School diploma.  It's a bit anti-climactic because she left High School in December to start college early.  She had all the required credits to graduate PLUS enough college credits to start college as a 2nd semester Freshman (woot woot)!
Where does she get such ambition?
This beautiful creature came from the woman sitting on the couch in PJ's drinking coffee and garden blogging while there is dog hair all over the carpet, crumbs on the kitchen floor, and pictures leaning on the wall waiting to be hung and no lunch plans.  Oh yeah - and family in town to celebrate the Big Day!!  Good thing I married a Go-Getter!!
I sit here and continue on because no one is awake yet to judge me (hee hee)
If not sitting with my coffee on my comfy couch I'd rather be in the garden.  And although I'm so very proud of my head strong daughter, I feel a slight intrusion on my weekend gardening time.
(Gasp) There I said it.
I will selfishly steal this morning time to read garden blogs and document my own for a little while then turn my attention to the days festivities, and the pre cursor chores - so I don't embarrass myself.

 Clustered Bellflower (Campanula glomerta 'Clustered bellflower' Superba ) from my Mom's sunny garden in Northern Illinois.  The 3 that she brought me last year made such a nice colony this summer that I took a few and put them in the front of the house.

Campanula glomerta 'Clustered bellflower' Superba

Just a few blooms left on my 'Nelly Moser' Clematis

Clematis 'Nelly Moser'

I may be a collector of hose guides.   I can't help but think they are so cute.  But it's not just he cuteness - it's a practical need.   I've ripped a few hoses out of the house by pulling and tugging and trying to reach the farthest places - instead of getting out ANOTHER hose on the other side of the house. I received some stern finger wagging at that!  When I trek my way back to the house, hose in tow, I realize the affects of my brutal force and lament over all the the broken stems and crushed blooms.  Now my hose guides gallantly protect my border plants and are increasing in numbers each month.  They don't have to be expensive, and I have no problem buying them from Ace Hardware.  I like them all different.   If only I could find them in my favorite movie characters.  Seriously, someone somewhere has had to have made a Yoda hose guide!  Abe Lincoln?  An ice cream cone?

Looking down the edge of the bed that sits at the back of the house - the one I can't see from any window..

Liatris, Clematis 'Ernest Markam', Blackberry Iris, Siberian Iris and 'Coppertina' Ninebark and a pot of annuals