oooh I love the odd balls! I usually go for oddball moderns, and very full & globular OGRs :) I have Acropolis coming fro Palantine this spring...very excited! ~Tammy Spiced Coffee: newer plant and so far no bloom looks like the last The Green Rose Autumn Bliss Tom Brown Quatre Saisons Blanc Mousseux - mine is always very grey Tootsies Lounge Leading Lady-she's potted in partial shade and always has a green tint (excuse the caterpillar nibbles) Koko Loco Hot Cocoa (very jealous of how full everyone's elses are!) Hopscotch (terrible rose, infact I think it may have finally died this winter) Honey Dijon

Zoe, here's another pic of Rainforest. It's been in the high 50's and 60's for over a week and down in the high 30's and 40's at night and the colors of Rainforest changed again. In a few days we're supposed to heat all the way back up to the high 80's and you should see most of the dark pink go away again. I think a lot of what I've shown you is what you can expect too:) I love seeing a rose change colors. BTW I should be adding photos of Green Ice too today or tomorrow, what about yours? The whiter ones are the older blooms, so these are the range from buds to old blooms.

eandhl: I'm in Fairfield County, so it's not a big deal for me to go to NJ. Based on the amount of time I ran around looking at stones and trying to get accurate information, I still feel it's important to see your stone before it's fabricated. Perhaps if you do more digging, you might find someone with a good selection closer. One fabricatorI went to told me they would order slabs for me to look at, without any obligation to purchase it if I didn't like it. I didn't follow through because I know how picky I am and won't be satisfied until I'm convinced I've made the "perfect" choice. Yes, even I find myself to be a pain, LOL! Since M Tex is mainly wholesale, perhaps you can call them and ask who they sell to in your area. That way, you can have the benefit of M Tex's knowledge base and know what you're getting. The local fabricator might be able to get them to take a pix of several slabs and email them to you. I chose my White America quartzite slab for my island at Dente Trading, an importer in NJ, and they held it for a few days until my local fabricator was able to send them a purchase order. This worked very well and the fabricator did a great job for $2100. Another fabricator quoted me $3100 for the island using the same slab I had on hold! Good luck! Sorry for taking so long to get back, but I've kind of random with my time on GW.

Thanks for all the lovely comments. orcasgramma- I didn't have any particular stone in mind when we started looking. We were about to buy a gorgeous blue typhoon, but just needed to look a little more and there it was! I fell in love. There were just 2 slabs, consecutively numbered, so we didn't look at any RFG in other places. Just immediately left a deposit. RFG is a serpentine marble. Some yards call it granite. Serpentine marble behaves like a granite, but not quite as strong. SSShane-The tiles are Trend Series beige. I don't know why is called beige because it's green. Here's a link to the 3x6. The color on my monitor is darker than real life. http://www.buytile.com/home.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=20609