Summer Guests and Summer Flowers

Guests are coming! Time for preparation, stress and more! We all have had guests and we all know it makes us just plain crazy.....most of the time the guests are family or good friends! What do they care if every last detail is not perfect. They probably don't, but you know that we do! So of course we make ourselves into crazy people and that is just the way it is. Most of the time by the time they get here we are exhausted. The house must be clean, the dogs must be clean, the laundry must be done, the guests rooms and bathroom must be in order, the refrigerator must be full and so on and so on. And don't even get me started on the yard and garden. Well I think that is all done and they start arriving today. To make my first guests so different than any others is that they are also bringing 4 dogs with them! When you already have 6 dogs of your own what is 4 more?......10! Our other guest arrives on Wednesday and No she is not bringing a dog at least I don't think she is! It will be a great time and as always too short but we will enjoy every minute. I began stressing a bit this morning so Sizzle and I do what I do best, we walked around the garden! Enjoy the pictures.

I think she was looking more for trouble to get into than admiring the flowers!

Beautiful pots of color!
A new color of Bees Balm and a new Dahlia!

Butterfly Bush! Lilies popping up everywhere!
For years I have planted different things around these lamp posts and have never really been happy with it this year I tried something new and I think I kind of like it. I may change it a little next year but keep the idea! Minus the little blue lobelia that came back from last year! Hardy little things, so I let them stay!