Thanks for all of the nice comments! No, my black pearl granite does not look green at all -- just a mottled black ranging from pure black to a charcoal. As for the crema marfil subways, the only place we could find them at the time was Best Tile in Rockville. I bet Ann Sacks and Waterworks and Georgetown both carry the a nice crema marfil in a 3x6. I'm redoing our bathrooms now in marble subway, and I remember that the pricing at AS and WW was lower than I had expected (although I can't remember exactly what it was per sq/ft). Hope that helps!

Here's the follow-up to "More later." I won't go into all the details, but will explain somewhat about my lack of activity here, and why I haven't been posting much. Shortly before my 90th. birthday, when I had the awesome Harley ride, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a lumpectomy shortly after. I had already learned of a vision problem that required a second cataract surgery. Multiple follow up appointments for those and treatments for the eye still ongoing. Recently I learned that I have skin cancer (squamous cell) as a result of an ordinary wart on my left calf that had been there for years. I had been told to just leave it alone, so I did until it started to grow a cap. Now I'm getting weekly treatments for that and it is responding really well. This past summer I gave up driving and sold my car. That is a life changing decision, and I miss my "little rambling (shopping) trips" that I used to make. I am very blessed to have my DD close by. She takes me to all my appointments, and is a retired Radiology Tech, so knows what the Docs are saying, and translates it to me. So that is my tale of woe, I haven't had the time or inclination to post a lot, but things are going okay in each case and soon Spring will be here and I'm looking forward to what my young'ns will come up with for my 92nd. End of whining!

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