Welcome to the new Alumna.

6-10-13 VERMONT: Sunday was beautiful, defying expectations. Today is overcast with rain predicted. The graduation ceremonies went off without any hitches, and Anna is now an alumna. I expect she will be hearing from the College Fund any second. Most of the guests have left. Dan is still here with car trouble, but will leave tonight or tomorrow.

I planted two Lupinus, ‘The Governor’ at the north end of the pond and a white Lobelia siphilitica, ‘Alba’ with all the blue cardinal flowers.

The HughesNet installer is here, finally, to deal, we hope, with the internet issues but had to leave with a leaking tire. I know he will return because he left stuff here. If you are reading this, the internet connection, not working as I write, will have been fixed.

New blooms: knapweed, weigela, dogwood, Siberian iris, bearded iris.


Commencement on the Green as seen on the Jumbotron.

Dogwood, the leaf is like the dogwood we're used to, but the flower is very different, although each tiny little flowerlet is a miniature of the more famous one.

Knapweed is a bachelor button relative.

Cranberry bush viburnum has flowers like the double-file viburnum, but the leaf is tri-lobed.